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ron   PRESIDENT, 

HORACE   GREELEY Of  New  York. 

FOR   VICE-PRKSroENT, 

B.  GRATZ  BROWN Of  Missouri. 


PROCEEDINGS 


LIBERAL 

RepuiL^ican  Convention, 

IN  CINCINNATI,  MAY  1st,  2d  and  3d,  1872. 


HORACE  GREELEY'S  LETTER  OF  ACCEPTA?[CE. 


ADDRESS  OF  THE  NEW  YORK  STATE  COMMITTEE 

TO  THEIR  FELLOW-CITIZENS. 


We  have  resolved  to  make  an  independent  appeal  to  the  sober  judgment,  conscience 
and  patriotism  of  the  American  people." — CiMfpnnuii  Convention  Addrcs,: 


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CINCINNATI   CONVENTION, 


FIEST  DAY'S  PROCEEDINGS. 
Wednesday,  May  1. 

By  11  o'clock  great  crowds  streamed  from  the  hotels 
through  the  principal  streets  to  the  grand  rendezvous  at 
the  hall  of  the  Convention.  Countless  carriages  rolled 
down  the  thoroughfares,  Convention-ward,  laden  with  del- 
egates, and  the  park  in  front  of  Exposition  Hall  was 
crowded  with  spectators  watching  the  various  delegations 
admitted.  Ample  and  excellent  preparation  had  been  made 
by  the  local  Committee  to  preserve  order  and  furnish  ac- 
commodations, and  within  an  hour  an  audience  of  7,0(K) 
people  was  easily  and  comfortably  seated.  The  hall,  wliose 
massive  proportions  it  seemed  impossible  to  fill,  was 
crowded  densely.  The  platform,  and  even  the  balcony  for 
the  musicians,  were  turned  over  to  delegates.  The  stage, 
which  was  arranged  for  the  seating  of  300  or  400  i)eople,  was 
packed,  and  the  spaces  allotted  to  the  press  sadly  crowded 
with  outsiders.  Shields  for  every  State  in  the  Union  line 
the  panels  of  the  galleries,  and  the  triple  stages,  whereon 
the  great  German  musical  choruses  arc  accustomed  to 
stand,  were  decked  with  flags  and  patriotic  emblems. 
The  delegations  filed  in  without  confusion,  and  the  im- 
mense throng  was  brought  to  order  with  incredible  rapid- 
ity. The  ladies'  gallery  had  been,  through  some  error, 
kept  closed,  and  remained  for  a  time  empty,  but  before  the 
proceedings  be^an  a  great  rush  sat  in  thither,  and  in  a  few 
minutes  all  the  available  space  was  seized. 

The  floor  of  the  building  is  perfectly  level  and  a  wide 
sea  of  faces  covered  the  immense  surface  from  wall  to 
wall ;  the  galleries,  arranged  sloping,  i)resented  the  same 
aspect,  and  from  the  stage  the  scene  was  a  magnificent 
one  ;  face  to  face,  there  could  be  no  mistaking  the  material 
of  this  impressive  assembly.  As  each  State  marched  in, 
all  eyes  turned  to  fasten  on  the  men  who  give  weight  .-ind 
character  to  this  historic  gathering.  The  foremost  men  of 
every  section  of  the  country  were  seated  quietly  with  the 
less  conspicuous  Eeformers  who  came  to  strike  for  a  puri- 
fied Government.  It  is  the  favorite  food  of  the  opponents 
of  this  Convention  that  its  members  are  mainly  composed 
of  the  disappointed  and  revengeful.    An  instant's  contem- 

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plation  of  the  sober,  dignified  thousands  that  filled  these 
immense  halls  is  the  only  answer  needed. 

At  12  o'clock  Col.  Grosvenor  called  the  Convention  to 
order,  and  spoke  as  follows  : 

As  Chairman  of  the  Liberal  Kepublican  State  Convention  of  Missouri,  by 
which  this  Convention  was  called,  it  is  my  pleasure,  gentlemen,  to  call  you 
to  order.  This  Convention  originated  in  a  single  State,  and  has  now  em- 
braced representatives  of  the  Republican  party  from  every  State  of  the  Union. 
[Applause.]  Nothing  can  prove  more  etfectually  the  depth  and  strength  of 
the  public  sentiment  to  which  we  have  appealed  than  the  fact  that  the  call 
originated  so  informally — originated  in  a  State  by  no  means  the  largest  nor 
most  potent  in  political  affairs — and  has  led  to  this  Convention,  acknowledged, 
now  by  all  to  be  not  only  the  largest  in  point  of  numbers,  but  the  truest  rep- 
resentative of  the  popular  sentiment.  [Applause.]  Our  appeal  to  the  coun- 
try, it  appears,  then,  was  based  on  correct  judgment  of  the  public  feeling 
and  the  public  need.  [Applause.]  It  was  so  defined  as  to  embody  that  will 
of  the  people  which,  after  all,  does  rule  and  shall  rule  these  Uiiited  States. 
The  men  from  that  State  who  took  the  risk  of  calling  the  Convention  are 
here  to-day  rejoicing  in  its  success,  and  confident  that  the  wisdom  of  the 
delegations  here  assembled,  and  the  wisdom  and  will  of  the  people  of  the 
United  States,  will  make  its  action  a  success  in  November  next.  [Applause.] 
I  need  not  make  here  the  usual  appeal  for  harmony  ;  the  men  who  have  sur- 
rendered their  share  in  a  victorious  party  because  of  their  convictions  of  duty 
will  not  come  here  to  struggle  for  personal  preference.  [Applause.]  Those 
preferences  we  lay  upon  the  altar  of  our  common  cause ;  all  else  save  those 
convictions  of  duty  we  can  surrender,  but  those  are  our  weapons,  and  we  da 
not  propose  to  throw  them  away  in  order  to  win  the  battle.  [Applause.]  In 
firm  belief,  gentlemen,  that  this  Convention,  called  originally  for  consultation, 
will  act  so  wisely  that  the  people  of  the  United  States,  who  stand  behind  it, 
watching  and  ready  to  sustain  it  if  it  acts  wisely,  will  give  it  triumph ;  and 
in  firm  belief  that  it  will  meet  that  demand  which  is  felt  all  over  the  country 
for  something  more  than  consultation  for  a  nominee  who  shall  represent  the 
people  [applause],  I  ask  you  to  go  forward  with  us  to  organize  for  that  strug- 
gle against  the  power  which  has  so  long  and  so  ingloriously  controlled  party 
organization  and  political  power.  [Loud  applause.]  Gentlemen,  by  direc- 
tion of  the  Executive  Committee  I  have  the  honor  to  name  as  your  temporary 
Chairman,  Judge  Stanley  Matthews,  of  Ohio.     [Applause.] 

The  motion  was  carried  unanimously.  The  Hon.  Stan- 
ley Matthews  then  came  forward,  and  having  appropriately 
expressed  his  high  appreciation  of  the  unexpected  honor 
conferred  on  him,  proceeded  briefly  to  discuss  the  attitude 
of  the  Convention : 

Col.  Grosvenor— By  request  of  the  Executive  Commit- 
tee, I  propose  as  temporary  secretaries  of  the  Convention : 
George  Ward  Nichols,  of  Ohio  ;  G.  W.  Palmer,  of  New  York, 
and  Joseph  Pulitzer,  of  JVIissouri.  By  further  instructions 
of  the  Executive  Committee,  I  have  the  following  resolu- 
tion to  propose  : 

Hesohed,  That  when  the  Convention  adjourn,  it  adjourn  to  meet  again  to- 
morrow morning  at  10  o'clock,  and  that,  in  the  mean  time,  the  several  State 
delegations  elect  from  among  their  number  delegates  equal  to  double  the 
Dujnoer  of  votes  to  bo  cast  by  their  respective  States  in  the  Electoral  College ; 
and  that  when  this  Convention  meets  again  to-morrow  morning,  at  10  o'clock,. 


the  delegates  so  elected  report  themselves  for  the  purpose  of  proceeding  to 
the  transaction  of  the  business  of  the  Convention. 

A  delegate  then  moved  to  adjourn,  but  as  the  President 
was  about  to  put  the  question  he  was  interrupted,  and  his 
Toice  was  drowned  by  sudden  and  vociferous  calls  for  Sen- 
ator Schurz  from  all  parts  of  the  hall,  which  were  con- 
tinued until  that  gentleman  appeared  on  the  front  i)latforin, 
when  some  asked  **  three  rousing  cheers  for  Schurz,"  which 
were  given  with  tremendous  enthusiasm,  many  delegates 
leaping  from  their  seats  and  waving  their  hats.  Mr. 
Schurz  said : 

My  fellow-citizens :  It  is  impossible  for  me  to  express  my  gratitude  for  the 
cordial  manner  in  which  you  have  called  me  out  and  received  me,  but  I  fear 
I  shall  have  to  disappoint  you  now.  This  Convention  means  business  [ap- 
plause], and  you  have  just  passed  a  resolution  with  regard  to  the  manner  in 
which  the  business  of  this  Convention  is  to  be  prepared  and  conducted.  The 
1st  day  of  May  is  moving  day  [laughter  and  cheers],  and  we  should  lose  no 
time  in  taking  such  steps  as  will  be  calcuhited  to  remove  that  which  is  ob- 
uoxious  to  the  honest  sons  of  the  American  people,  and  to  put  something 
better  in  its  place.  [Applause.]  I  said  that  I  feared  that  I  should  have  to 
disappoint  you.  Now,  honestly,  I  do  not  intend  to  make  a  speech  at  this 
moment.  [Loud  cries  of  "  go  on."]  In  the  course  of  the  proceedings  of  this 
Convention  there  will  now  and  then  be  moments  when  there  is  no  practical 
business  to  be  transacted.  I  shall  then,  perhaps,  avail  myself  of  some  oppor- 
tunity to  address  a  few  remarks  to  you,  and  I  may  observe  that  I  have  some 
things  to  say.  [Loud  cries  of  "now,  now,"  and  cheers]  I  have  had  so  fre- 
quently to  withstand  the  voices  of  those  who  were  against  me,  that  you  must 
take  no  exception  if  I  to-day  resist  the  voices  of  those  who  seem  to  be  in  my 
favor.  There  is  some  practical  business  to  be  done,  and  there  is  very  little 
time  for  doing  it,  and  you  must  bear  with  me,  if  in  obedience  to  my  own 
judgment,  I  conclude  by  simply  seconding  the  motion  that  we  now  do 
adjourn.  [Loud  cheers,  amid  cries  for  Cassius  M.  Clay  and  other  noted 
speakers.] 

The  Chairman  then  announced  that  the  Convention 
stood  adjourned  until  10  o'clock  on  Thursday  morning. 


SECOND  DAY'S  PEOCEEDII^GS, 
Thursday,  May  2. 

The  Convention  was  called  to  order  at  10.20  by  the  tem- 
porary Chairman.  The  Chair  announced  that  there  were 
seats  for  the  delegates  present  from  AVyoming,  Montana 
and  Dakota  Territories.  He  also  urged  quiet  and  order  as 
indispensable  to  hearing  in  so  large  a  hall,  and  requested 
everybody  to  keep  seated  unless  he  rose  to  speak,  and,  in 
the  latter  case,  to  announce  the  name  and  State  of  the 
speaker. 

A  JMissouri  delegate  urged  a  Committee  on  Permanent 
Organization,  to  consist  of  one  delegate  from  each  State. 


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Fitz  Henry  Warren  moved  to  amend  by  including  the 
Territories.  A  brief  discussion  arose  on  the  amendment, 
which  was  carried.  'j.^he  motion,  as  amended,  was  then 
carried. 

DEBATE  ON  ORGANIZATION. 

Gen.  Cochrane  moved  that  a  Committee  of  ^ine  be 
appointed  to  draft  rules  and  regulations  for  this  Conven- 
tion, and  that  in  tlte  mean  time  the  rules  of  the  House  of 
Eepresentatives,  so  far  as  applicable,  be  adopted. 

Mr.  Tousey,  of  New  York,  moved  that  all  propositions 
relating  to  principles  and  platform  be  referred,  without 
debate,  to  the  Committee  on  Eesolutions,  when  ap- 
pointed. 

Mr.  McClure,  of  Pennsylvania,  moved  that  a  Commit- 
tee be  appointed,  to  consist  of  one  from  each  State  and 
Territory,  on  Resolutions. 

Mr.  Atkinson,  of  Massachusetts,  moved  to  amend  by 
making  the  Committee  consist  of  two  from  each  State  only.. 

Mr.  Atkinson  modified  his  amendment,  so  as  to  con-^ 
fine  the  Committee  to  one  from  each  State,  thus  excluding 
the  Territories. 

Mr.  Grosvenor,  of  Missouri,  urged  the  importance  ot 
the  immediate  appointment  of  a  Committee  on  Creden- 
tials, in  advance  of  the  appointment  of  a  Committee  on 
Resolutions. 

The  Chair  concurred  in  this  view.  It  was  the  first  duty 
to  constitute  the  Convention  by  ascertaining  regularly 
who  its  members  were. 

Mr.  McClure  withdrew  his  motion  at  the  request  of  Mr. 
Cochrane,  who  moved  the  appointment  of  a  Committee  on 
Credentials,  to  consist  of  one  delegate  from  each  State 
and  Territory.  Adopted.  The  roll  was  called,  and  the 
Committee  named,  as  follows  : 

COMMITTEE  ON    CREDENTIALS. 


Arkansas — W.  P.  Stone. 
California — Wm.  M.  Kickerbv. 
Indiana— T.  B.  Griffith. 
Iowa— II.  B.  Wilson. 
Kansas — Byron  Sherry. 
Kentucky — Wno.  S.  Rankin. 
Florida— F.  B.  C.  Drew. 
Maine— D.  T.  Wright. 
Maryland— M.  T.  GosnelL 
Massachusetts — Charles  G.  Davis. 
Miohif^an— M.  Mansfield. 
Minnesota — C.  D.  Sherwood. 
Georgia — J.  C.  Hendon. 
M.  Carolina — Stephen  C.  Johnson. 
Misaissippi— W.  S.  Cole. 
Ohio— E.  A.  Parrott 
New  York — Alfred  Wilkinson. 
New  Jersey — Jacob  W.  SUrr. 
LouisUua-^Geo.  II.  Brau^hn. 


Nebraska — John  McCarthy. 
New  Hampshire — Ed.  D.  Baker. 
Alabama — Louis  M.  Douglass. 
Oregon— J.  W.  Johnson, 
Wisconsin — W.  W.  Treadway. 
Texas — Thos.  II.  Stribbling. 
West  Virginia — Abel  Segar. 
Virginia — E.  S.  Hamilton. 
Tennessee  — R.  II.  Byrd. 
Nevada — Geo.  G.  Lyon. 
South  Carolina — W.  K.  Greenfield. 
District  Columbia — Robt.  G.  Fleming;. 
Illinois— D.  L.  Phillips. 
Missouri — James  Barnes.  \ 

Vermont — Georire  W.  Bullon. 
Pennsylvania— Thomas  J.  MorrelL 
Dakota — George  N.  Koper. 
Colorado — W.  H,  Greenwood 


The  roll  of  the  States  was  called  for  Committees  on 
Platform,  on  Organization,  and  on  Rnles,  when  one  mem- 
ber from  each  State  and  Territory  was  named  in  the  order 
of  the  Committees,  as  follows  : 

States.  Platfoi-m.  Organization.  Rules. 

Alabama Satuuel.  F.  Rice,  None,  W.  F.  Ilatchett. 

Arkansas    E.  Bancroft,  P.  J.  Kaufman,  F.  J.  Anderson. 

California W.  H.  Russell,  R.  R.  Nickerson,  Henry  Smith. 

Connecticut D.  A.  Wells,  J.  J.  Jacques,  S.  C.  Fessenden. 

Delaware None,  None,  None. 

Florida J.  B.  C.  Drew,  H.  H.  Hoey,  A.  W.  Dacosta. 

Georgi:'. Jas.  Johnson,  J.  R.  Parrott,  R.  L.  McWliartor, 

ininois Horace  AVhite,  L.  Waldon,  Jesse  0.  Norton. 

luiHana T.  C.  Whiteside,  M.  A.  Weiss,  R.  N.  Hudson. 

Iowa J.  B.  Grinnell,  D.  Rover,  Jacob  Buller. 

Kansas E.  G.  Ross,  John  Walraff,  Jobn  E.  Marken. 

Kentucky J.  M.  Brown,  T.  W.  Campbell,  W.  E.  Kreigshaher. 

Louisiana J.  M.  Dorsheimer,  H.  H.  Harris,  William  Vigus. 

Maine J.  L.  Linford, D.  A.  Easton. 

Maryland A.  W.  Bradford,  L.  Henninghansure,  Charles  R.  Doraii. 

Massachusetts F.  W.  Bird,  W.  M.  Endicott,  Jr.,  J.  Farlow. 

Michigan J.  P.  Thompson,  Otto  Sharp,  W.  L.  Maynunl. 

Minnesota Thos.  Hatechcr,  S.  Massell,  William  Alayo. 

Mississippi W.  T.  Nesbitt,  R.  H.  Montgomery,  S.  A.  Vose. 

Missouri Wm.  Grosvenor,  J.  N.  Burns,  G.  Anderson. 

Nebraska W.  P.  Roberts,  Dr.  F.  Renner,  T.  Baumer. 

Nevada George  L.  Lyon,  George  G.  Lyon,  George  J.  Lyons. 

New  Hampshire Ed.  D.  Baker,  W.  H.  Gove,  E.  B.  Baker. 

New  Jersey J.  M.  Scovel,  E.  A.  Stansbury,  S.  Condit. 

New  York Waldo  Hutchins,  E.  R.  Reynolds,  Theodore  Tilton. 

North  Carolina Louis  Haines,  W.  L.  M&son,  H.  J.  Menniuger. 

Ohio George  Hoodlej^  R.  P.  Spalding,  H.  L.  Burneit. 

Oregon J.  W.  Johnson,  J.  W.  Johnson,  J.  W.  Johnson. 

Pennsylvania Hon.  Wm.  Bull,  David  Barclay,  T.  J.  A.  Power. 

Rhode  Island Ed.  Harris,  J.  H.  Shearman,  James  F.  Smitli. 

South  Carolina S.  A.  Pearce,  Jr  ,  R.  B.  Carpenter,  E.  W.  Wheeler. 

Tennessee G.  P.  Thurston,  Julius  Ochs,  J.  S.  Fowler. 

Texas A.J.  Hamilton,  Julius  Berends,  A.  Wright 

Vermont Charles  Clemens,  John  Landon,  J.  P.  Ladd. 

Virginia W.  W.  Wood,  W.  C.  Newbury,  C.  B.  Raine. 

West  Virginia W.  P.  Hubbard,  John  S.  Kane,  Frank  Burr. 

Wisconsin G.  W,  Woodward,  E.  H.  Johnson,  C.  J.  Palmer. 

District  of  Columbia.  .  John  Defrees,  C.  M.  Alexander,  Jos.  Daniels. 

Colorado S.Brown,  S.E.Brown,  S.E.Brown. 

Dakota Geo.  A.  Proper,  Geo.  A.  Proper,  Geo.  A.  Proper. 

Montana F.  C.  Evarts,  F.  C.  Evarts,  F.  C.  Evarts. 

Utah G.  W.  Galvin,  AV.  H.  Evans,  AV\  H.  Evans. 

The  Chair  read  a  communication  claiming  for  Laura 
Deforce  Gordon  a  seat  in  the  Convention,  as  representing 
California.    Eeferred  to  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

Mr.  McClure,  of  Pennsylvania,  renewed  his  motion  to 
appoint  a  Committee,  consisting  of  one  delegate  from  each 
State,  on  Resolutions.    Adopted. 

Mr.  Selden  presented  the  following  protest^  from  the 
minority  of  the  New  York  delegation,  which  was  referred 
to  the  Committee  on  Credentials  : 

To  the  Committee  on  Credentiah :  We,  the  undcn-i-ncd.  mcuibcrs  from  tlie 


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Stat3  of  New  York,  in  Convention  of  Liberal  Republicans,  who  are  opposed 
to  the  nomination  of  Horace  Greeley  for  President,  respectfully  protest  against 
the  manner  in  which  the  representative  delegates  have  been  chosen  by  the 
whole  body  of  the  members  of  the  State  of  New  York,  and  agamst  their  rec- 
ognition by  the  Convention  as  a  proper  delegation  from  that  State.  A  com- 
mittee was  appointed  by  the  whole  body  of  members,  of  one  from  each  judi- 
cial district,  making  a  committee  of  eight,  instructed  to  report  the  names  of 
sixty-eight  representative  delegates,  said  delegates  to  be  nominated  by  the 
delegates  present  from  the  several  districts.  From  this  committee  every  per- 
son sharing  our  views  concerning  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Greeley  was  studiously 
excluded,  although  in  the.  First  Judicial  District  alone  we  numbered  twenty 
persons,  the  delegates  then  present  from  the  entire  State  numbering  but  eighty- 
four.    ■ 

We  further  state  that  in  the  1st  Congress  District,  Edward  A.  Seaman  was 
nominated  by  the  delegation  present  from  that  district  as  one  of  the  repre- 
sentative delegates,  and  aller  it  was  ascertained  that  Mr.  Seaman  was  opposed 
to  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Greeley,  another  person  known  as  "  Rocky  Moore  " 
was  substituted  for  him  by  the  Committee. 

"We  further  state  that  the  delegates  from  the  Vlllth  Congress  District  met 
as  directed  by  the  Chair,  and  nominated,  by  a  vote  of  eight  out  of  thirteen 
delegates  then  and  there  present,  James  L.  Bishop  and  Thomas  Duffy  as  their 
representative  delegates,  and  that  this  choice  was  duly  reported  to  and  disre- 
garded by  gaid  Committee  and  by  the  whole  number  of  its  members  in  its 
election,  and  that  the  representative  delegates  reported  by  the  Committee  and 
elected  by  the  whole  body  from  this  district  were  never  nominated  at  any 
meeting  of  the  resident  delegates  thereof,  as  required  by  the  instructions  of 
the  Convention  and  by  resolution  of  our  members. 

AVe  further  state  that,  in  the  XXVIIth  Congress  District,  the  one  delegate 
present  recommended  himself  and  Theodore  Bacon  as  representative  delegates, 
and  that  upon  ascertaining  that  Mr.  Bacon  was  opposed  to  the  nomination  of 
Horace  Greeley,  the  Committee  substituted,  without  consultation  with,  any 
resident  of  the  XXVIIth  Congress  District,  the  name  of  a  person  known  to 
concur  in  the  views  of  the  majority. 

We  further  state  that  no  persons  were  present  as  members  of  the  Conven- 
tion from  several  Congress  districts,  and  that  in  the  election  of  representative 
delegates  to  fill  their  vacancies,  all  persons  understood  to  be  opposed  to  the 
nommation  of  Mr.  Greeley  were  studiously  ignored. 

We  further  state,  that  at  a  meeting  of  the  whole  of  the  members,  a  motion 
was  put  and  carried,  instructing  the  entire  representative  delegation  to  cast 
their  vote  solid  for  Greeley,  until  twenty  delegates  request  that  they  should 
retire  for  consultation,  and  even  after  that  the  vote  of  the  whole  State  was  to 
be  cast  as  the  majority  should  direct,  disregarding  entirely  th3  preferences  of 
jMirticular  districts;  and  that  we  protest  against  the  vote  oVthe  State  of  Kcav 
York  being  received  in  that  manner. 

We  further  submit  that  the  representative  delegation,  as  at  present  consti- 
tuted, does  not  represent  the  mass  delegation  of  the  State. 

John  N.  Pomeroy,  William  D.  Foulke,  Alfred  Taylor, 

Tlieodore  Bacon,  Thomas  Duffy,  Edward  J.  Feanell, 

David  Dudley  Field,  Charles  E.  McBride,  W.  H.  Arrowsmith, 

Edw.  H.  Seaman,  Henry  Atwater,  James  Dunne, 

Mahlon  Sands,  Frederick  Wesson,  James  R.  Adams, 

Henry  D.  Lloyd,  G.  C.  Bragdon,  Dcwitt  Stafford, 

James  L.  Bishop,  George  W.  DiUawav,  Charles  J.  Jcwett, 

William  J.  Hurdy,  Laroy  8.  Gove.        *  F.  K.  Porter. 
Oeorge  McLean, 

A  delegate  from  New  Hampshire  moved  the  appoint- 
ment of  one  delegate  from  each  State  as  a  National  Liberal 


Eepiiblican  Executive  Committee.  The  motion  was  with- 
drawn temporarily.  The  Chair  read  a  letter  of  greeting 
from  the  Liberal  Eepublicaus  of  Oneida,  New  York. 

Mr.  Grosvenor,  of  Missouri,  moved  to  take  a  recess  till 
2  o'clock.     Lost. 

■  Mr.  Davis,  a  colored  delegate  from  Kentucky,  moved 
that,  as  no  business  was  pending,  we  bear  from  Cassius  M. 
Clay.     [Great  applause.] 

The  Chair  announced  that  a  motion  was  i)ending  that 
when  the  Convention  take  a  recess  it  be  till  3  o'clock. 
[Cries  of  *' 2  o'clock."] 

Mr.  Grosvenor  urged  that  it  would  save  time  to  give 
the  Committee  until  3  o'clock  to  prepare  business.  Mr. 
Hickman  again  appealed  to  the  Convention  to  stick  to  the 
business  until  it  was  finished.  The  Chair  announced  that 
rooms  had  been  provided  for  immediate  occupation  by  the 
several  Committees,  who  were  invited  to  retire  for  delibera- 
tion.   A  recess  was  ordered  until  3  o'clock,  p.  m. 

AFTERNOON  SESSION. 

Upon  the  reassembling  of  the  Convention,  Judge  Spald- 
ing, of  Ohio,  from  the  Committee  on  Permanent  Organiza- 
tion, reported  for  Permanent  President  Carl  Schurz,  with 
one  Vice-President  and  a  Secretary  from  each  State  and 
Territory.  The  report  was  adopted,  and,  amid  great  ai>- 
plause,  Mr.  Schurz  advanced,  the  band  playing  *'Hail  to 
the  Chief,"  and  was  introduced.    He  said : 

SPEECH  OF  CARL  SCHURZ. 
J?Tobody  can  survey  this  vast  and  enthusiastic  assembly,  gathered  from  all 
parts  of  the  Republic,  without  an  emotion  of  astonishment  and  hope — aston- 
ishment considering  the  spontaneity  of  the  impu'se  which  has  brought  it 
together,  and  hope  considering  the  great  purpose  for  which  it  has  met.  The 
Republic  may  well  congratulate  itself  upon  the  fact  that  such  a  meeting  was 
possible.  Look  at  the  circumstances  from  which  it  has  sprung.  We  saw  the 
American  people  just  issued  from  a  great  and  successful  struggle,  and,  in  the 
full  pride  of  theirnational  strength,  threatened  with  new  evils  and  dangers 
ol  an  insidious  nature,  and  the  masses  of  the  population  apparently  not 
aware  of  them.  We  saw  jobbery  and  corruption,  stimulated  to  unusual 
audacity  by  the  opportunities  of  a  protracted  cinl  war,  invading  the  j)ublic 
service  of  the  Government,  as  well  as  almost  all  movements  of  the  social 
body,  and  we  saw  a  public  opinion  most  deplorably  lenient  in  its  judgment 
of  public  and  private  dishonesty.  We  saw  the  Government  indulging  in 
wanton  disregard  of  the  laws  of  the  land,  and  resorting  to  daring  assump- 
tions of  unconstitutional  power,  and  we  saw  the  people,  apparently  at  least, 
acquiescing  with  reckless  levity  in  the  transgressions,  threatening  the  very  life 
of  our  free  institutions.  We  saw  those  in  authority  with  tyrannical  insohnces 
thrust  the  hand  of  power  through  the  vast  machinery  of  the  public  cer>-ice 
into  local  and  private  affairs,  and  we  saw  the  innumerable  mass  of  their  ad- 
herents accept  those  encroachments  upon  their  independence  without  protest 
or  resentment.  We  saw  men  in  the  highest  places  of  the  Republic  employ 
their  power  and  opportunities  for  selfish  advantage,  thus  stimulating  the  de- 
moralization of  our  political  life,  and  by  their  conspicuous  example,  and  the 


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loud  chorus  of  partisan  sycophancy,  drown  the  voice  of  honest  criticism.  "We 
saw  part  of  our  common  country,  which  had  been  convulsed  by  a  disastrous 
rebellion,  most  grievously  suflfering  from  the  consequences  of  the  civil  war; 
and  we  saw  the  haughty  spirit  of  power  refusing  to  lift  up  those  who  had 
gone  astray,  and  were  now  suffering,  by  a  policy  of  generous  conciliation  and 
the  statesmanship  of  common  sense.  We  observed  this,  and  at  the  same 
time  a  reckless  and  greedy  party  spirit,  in  the  name  of  a  great  organization, 
crowned  with  the  laurels  of  glorious  achievements;  striving  to  palliate  or 
justify  these  wrongs  and  abuses;  to  stifle  the  moral  sense  of  the  people,  and 
to  drive  them  by  a  tyrannical  party  discipline  not  only  to  submit  to  this  for 
the  present,  but  to  perpetuate  it,  that  the  political  power  of  the  countiy  be 
preserved  in  the  hands  of  those  who  possessed  it.  He  who  calmly  and  im- 
partially surveyed  this  spectacle  could  not  fail  to  be  deeply  alarmed,  not  only 
at  the  wrongs  that  had  been  and  were  being  perpetrated,  but  at  the  subjuga- 
tion of  the  popular  spirit  which  did  not  rise  up  against  them.  The  question 
might  well  have  been  asked,  Have  the  American  people  become  so  utterly 
indifferent  to  their  true  interests,  to  their  national  harmony,  to  the  purity  of 
their  political  life,  to  the  integrity  of  their  free  institutions,  to  the  very  honor 
of  the  American  name,  that  thay  should  permit  themselves  to  be  driven  like 
a  flock  of  sheep  by  those  who  now  assume  to  lord  it  over  them  ?  That  ques- 
tion has  now  found  an  answer.  The  virtue,  the  spirit  of  independence,  the 
love  of  liberty,  the  republican  pride  of  the  American  people  are  not  dead 
yet,  and  do  not  mean  to  die,  and  that  answer  is  given  in  thunder  tones  by  tho 
Ck)nvention  of  American  freemen  here  assembled.  Indeed,  those  who  three 
months  ago  first  raised  their  voices  did  so  with  an  abiding  faith  that  their 
appeals  could  not  remain  without  response,  but  the  volume  of  that  response 
has  now  far  exceeded  their  anticipations.  The  crust  of  narrow  prejudices, 
of  selfish  partisanship,  which  but  yesterday  sftemed  to  stop  every  free  pulsa- 
tion of  the  popular  heart,  is  suddenly  burst  asunder.  The  patriotic  citizen 
rises  above  the  partizan.  We  begin  to  breathe  again  as  freemen.  We  dare 
again  call  things  by  their  right  names.  We  have  once  more  the  courage  to 
break  through  the  deceptions  with  which  the  popular  mind  has  been  be- 
fogged ;  we  feel  once  more  that  our  convictions  of  right  and  wrong  are  our 
own,  and  that  our  votes  belong  to  the  country,  and  thus  we  defiantly  set  our 
sense  of  duty  against  the  arrogance  of  power,  like  the  bugle  blast  of  dooms- 
day. The  summons  is  resounding  North  and  South  and  East  and  West.  The 
conscience  of  the  people,  which  seemed  dead,  has  arisen.  From  every  point 
of  the  compass  the  hosts  are  flocking  together,  and  here  we  are,  let  me  hope, 
aye,  I  do  hope,  with  fearless  determination  to  do  our  whole  duty,  as  if  no- 
thing could  withstand  a  movement  so  irresistibly  inspiring.  Indeed,  the 
biea'h  of  victory  is  in  the  very  air  which  surrounds  us,  and  that  victory  will 
n(  t  escape  from  our  grasp  if  we  are  true  to  our  mission,  but  you  must  bear 
with  mo  if  in  this  hour  of  enthusiasm  when  our  hearts  are  big  with  proud 
presentiments,  I  address  to  you  a  word  of  soberness. 

A  GRAND  OPPORTUNITY  OFFERED  FOR  REFORM. 

Wo  have  a  grand  opportunity  before  us,  grand  and  full  of  promise.  We 
can  crush  corruption  in  our  public  concerns ;  we  can  give  the  republic  a  pure 
and  honest  government;  we  can  revive  the  authority  of  the  laws;  we  can 
restore  to  full  value  the  constitutional  safeguard  of  our  liberties;  we  can 
infuse  a  higher  moral  spirit  into  our  political  life;  we  can  reanimate  in  the 
hearts  of  the  whole  people  in  every  section  of  the  land  a  fraternal  and  proud 
national  feeling.  We  can  do  all  this,  but  we  can  do  it  only  by  throwing  be- 
hind us  the  selfish  spirit  of  political  trade.  We  obey  the  purest  and  loftiest 
inspirations  of  the  popular  uprising  which  sent  us  here.  A  great  opportu- 
nity ;  it  is  great  as  the  noblest  ambition  might  desire,  but  equally  great — 
nay,  to  my  mind,  fearful— is  the  responsibility  it  brings  with  it,  an  opportu- 
nity like  this  momentous  period  in  the  history  of  a  nation.  An  uprising  of 
the  people,  such  as  we  l)chold,  will  not  occur  every  day,  nor  every  year ;  for 


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it  must  spring  from  the  spontaneous  impulse  of  the  popular  mind.  Disap- 
point the  high  expectations  brought  forth  by  that  spontaneous  impulse,  and 
you  have  not  only  lost  a  great  opportunity,  but  you  have  struck  a  blow  at  the 
confidence  which  the  people  have  in  themselves,  and  for  a  long  time  popular 
reform  movements  will  not  rise  again  under  the  weight  of  the  discredit 
which  you  will  have  brought  upon  them.  Is  it  possible  that  such  should  l.>e 
the  result  of  our  doings  ?  It  is  possible,  if  we  do  not  rise  to  the  full  hight 
of  our  duty.  It  is  possible,  if,  instead  of  following  the  grand  impulse  of  the 
popular  heart,  we  attempt  to  control  and  use  this  movement  by  the  old  trickff 
of  the  political  trade,  or  fritter  away  our  zeal  in  small  bickerings  and  mean, 
selfish  aspirations.  We  have  come  together  to  give  shape,  point,  and  prac- 
tical, productive  force  to  this  great  upheaval  of  the  popular  conscience.  It 
is  our  business  to  lay  down  certain  principles  and  propositions  of  policy,  and 
we  have  to  present  to  the  sufi'rage  of  the  people  men  for  the  highest  offices  of 
the  Republic,  who,  if  elected,  arc  to  carry  those  principles  and  propositions 
into  a  living  reality. 

CX)NCEIINING    PLATFORM    AND   CANDIDATES. 

As  to  our  platform,  we  shall  be  wise  enough  to  keep  in  mind  those  things 
which  a  Republic  stands  most  in  need  of.     The  very  fact  of  our  having  come 
together  is  proof  of  our  substantial  agreement.     Let  us  only,  in  what  we 
promise  to  the  people,  be  honest  and 'straightforward,  and  not  attempt  to 
cheat  those  whom  we  ask  to  follow  our  lead  by  deceitfuj  representations.     As 
to  the  men  whom  we  shall  present  for  the  high  offices  of  the  Government,  let 
us,  I  entreat  you,  not  lose  sight  of  the  fact,  that  great  reforms,  the  overthrow 
of  inveterate  abuses,  the  establishment  of  a  better  order  of  things,  are  not 
accomplished  by  mere  promises  and  declarations,  but  require  the  wise  and 
eaergetic  action  of  statesmen,  if  this  is  to  be  truly  a  Reform  movement,  and 
if  it  be  not  merely  on  paper.     But  it  must  be  embodied  in  the  men  we  trust 
with  the  power  to  infuse  the  spirit  of  Reform  into  practical  action.     If  you 
want  to  know  how  reforms  are  not  executed,  look  at  those  now  in  power. 
You  will  hardly  excel  them  in  the  profusion  of  high-sounding  professions, 
and  you  will  never  excel  them  in  the  art  of  how  not  to  do  it.     Reform  must 
become  a  farce  in  the  hands  of  those  who  either  do  not  understand  it,  or  do 
not  care  for  it.     If  you  mean  Reform,  intrust  the  work  to  none  but  those  who 
understand  it,  and  honestly  do  care — and  care  more  for  it  than  for  their  own 
personal  ends.     Pardon  me  if  I  express  myself  on  this  point  with  freedom 
and  frankness.     I  have  not,  I  assure  you,  come  here  for  the  purpose  of  urging 
the  claims  or  advancing  the  interest  of  any  one  man,  against  all  others.    I 
have  come  here  with  sincere  and  ardent  devotion  to  a  cause,  and  to  use  my 
best  endeavors  to  have  that  cause  put  under  the  care  of  men  who  are  devoted 
to  it  with  equal  sincerity,  and  possess  those  qualities  of  mind  and  heart  which 
will  make  it  safe  in  their  keeping.     I  earnestly  deprecate  the  cry  we  have 
heard   so  frequently,  "  Anybody  to  beat  Grant."     There  is  someting  more 
wanted  than  to  beat  Grant.     Not  anybody  who  might,  by  cheap  popularity, 
or  by  astute  bargains  and  combinations,  or  by  all  the  tricks  of  political  wire- 
pulling, manage  to  scrape  together  votes  enough  to  be  elected  President. 
We  do  not  merely  want  another,  but  we  want  a  better  President  than  we  now 
have.     We  don't  want  a  mere  change  of  persons  in  the  administration  of  the 
Government.     We  want  the  overthrow  of  a  pernicious  system.     We  want 
the  eradication  of  flagrant  abuses.     We  want  the  infusion  of  a  loftier  moral 
spirit  into  our  political  organization.     We  want  a  Government  which  the 
best  people  of  this  country  will  be  proud  of.     Not  anybody  can  accomplish 
that,  and,  therefore,  away  with  ths  cry,  "  Anybody  to  beat  Grant,"— a  cry 
too  paltry,  too  unworthy  of  the  great  enterprise  in  which  we  arc  engaged. 
I  do  not  struggle  for  the  mere  punishment  of  an  opponent,  or  a  temporary 
lease  of  power.     There  is  to  me  a  thing  no  less,  nay,  more  important  even, 
than  our  success  in  this  campaign,  and  that  is,  that  the  American  people  shall 
not  be  disappointed  in  the  fruits  which  our  victory  is  to  bear.     It  wc  should 


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fail  to  select  men  who  will  carry  out  the  beneficent  reforms  we  contemplate, 
then,  let  me  say  it  boldly,  it  would  be  better  bad  this  movement  never  been 
undertaken;  for  continuance  of  those  in  power  who  possess  it  now,  would 
mean  only  a  reformatory  movement  deferred  and  an  opportunity  lost.  Still, 
while  our  failure  now  would  mean  a  great  reform  movement  sunk  to  the 
level  of  a  farce,  a  great  opportunity  lost,  and  the  hope  of  the  people  turned 
into  discouragement  and  disgust,  let  us  discard,  at  least,  the  fatal  error  into 
which  many  seem  to  have  fallen,  that  no  statesmanship  is  required  to  conduct 
the  affairs  of  a  great  government. 

THE   PRESIDENT   SHOULD    BE    A   STATESMAN. 

I  candidly  believe  the  people  are  waking  up  to  the  truth,  for,  unless  I 
greatly  mistake  the  spirit  of  this  day,  what  the  people  now  most  earnestly 
demand  is,  not  that  mere  good  intentions,  but  that  a  superior  Intelligence, 
coupled  with  superior  virtue,  should  guide  our  affairs;  not  that  merely  an 
honest  and  a  popular  man,  but  that  a  statesman  be  put  at  the  head  of  our 
Government.  In  selecting  candidates  for  office,  politicians  are  accustomed 
to  discuss  the  question  of  availability.  What  does  availability  mean  in  our 
case  ?  Let  us  look  for  the  best  men  we  have,  and  among  the  very  best  let  us 
select  the  strongest.  The  people  earnestly  desire  a  thorough  reform  of  our 
Government.  They  want  not  only  a  change,  but  a  change  for  the  better. 
They  want  also,  therefore,  to  be  assured  that  it  will  be  for  the  better,  and 
that  the  best  candidate  is  likely  to  be  the  most  available.  If  we  present  men 
to  the  suffrages  of  the  people  whose  character  and  names  appeal  to  the 
loftiest  instincts  and  aspirations  of  the  patriot  citizen,  we  shall  have  on  our 
side  that  which  ought  to  be,  and  now  I  trust  will  be,  the  ruling  arbiter  of 
political  contests — the  conscience  of  the  nation.  If  that  be  done,  success 
will  be  certain.  Then  we  can  appeal  to  the  minds  and  hearts,  to  the  loftiest 
ambition  of  the  people,  with  thess  arguments  and  entreaties,  which  spring 
only  from  a  clear  conviction  of  right.  Then  we  shall  not  appeal  in  vain  for 
their  support  to  those  of  our  fellow-citizens  who  hitherto  were  separated 
from  us  by  party  divisions,  who  desire  honestly  to  work  for  the  best  interests 
of  the  country  in  this  crisis,  and  whom  we  shall  welcome  with  fraternal 
greeting  in  this  struggle  for  a  great  cause,  whether  they  call  themselves  Dem- 
ocrats or  Republicans.  I'hen  we  shall  successfully  overcome  those  prejudices 
which  now  confront  us,  and  the  insidious  accusation  that  this  great  Convention 
is  a  mere  gathering  of  disappointed  and  greedy  politicians  will  fall  harmless 
at  our  feet,  for  we  shall  have  demonstrated  by  our  action  that  we  were  guided 
by  the  purest  and  most  patriotic  of  motives.    And  this  can  be  done. 

THE   DUTY   OP    THE    HOUB. 

Let  us  despise,  as  unworthy  of  our  cause,  the  tricky  manipulations  by  whicli, 
to  the  detriment  of  the  Republic,  political  bodies  have  so  frequently  been 
controlled.  Let  us,  in  the  face  of  the  great  things  to  be  accomplished,  rise 
above  all  petty  considerations.  Personal  friendsliip  and  State  pride  are  noble 
sentiments;  but  what  is  personal  friendship,  what  is  State  pride,  compared 
with  the  great  duty  we  owe  to  our  common  country,  and  the  awful  responsi- 
bility resting  upon  our  action  as  sensible  men.  We  know  that  not  every  one 
of  us  can  be  gratitied  by  the  choice  of  his  favorite.  Many  of  us  will  have  to 
be  disappointed,  but  in  this  solemn  hour  our  hearts  should  know  but  one 
favorite,  and  that  is  the  American  Republic.  Pardon  me  for  these  words  of 
warning  and  entreaty.  I  trust  nobody  will  consider  them  misplaced.  I 
fervently  hope  the  result  of  our  deliberations  will  show  that  they  were  not 
spoken  m  vain.  I  know  that  they  have  sprung  from  the  most  anxious  desire 
to  do  what  is  best  for  our  country,  and  thus  I  appeal  to  you  with  all  tfie  ferCor 
of  an.xious  earnestness.  We  stand  on  the  threshold  of  a  great  victory,  and 
victory  will  truly  be  ours  if  we  surely  deserve  it. 


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Nebraska John  McCormick. 

Nevada Geo.  G.  Lyons. 

New  Hampshire \Vm.  H.  Grovo. 

New  Jersey J.  Miller  McKinn. 

New  York Thos.  Raines. 

North  Carolina H.  H.  Helper. 

Ohio 6.  Foilet! 

Oregon J.  W.  Johnson. 

Pennsylvania M.  B.  Lowry. 

Rhode  Island E.  Harris. 

South  Carolina W.  W.  Wheeler. 

Tennessee Gilbert  Meyers. 

Texas E.  Morgan  Hamilton. 

Vermont Major  J.  H.  Salisbury. 

Virginia Geo.  Rye. 

West  Virginia Ward  H.  Lamon. 

Wisconsin W.  H.  Doe. 

District  of  Columbia Joseph  Casey. 

Dakota  Territory Geo.  W.  Kropper. 

Montana F.  C.  Everett. 


Following  is  the  list  of  Vice-Presidents  : 

Alabama Thos.  Lamert 

Arkansas D.  K.  Underwood. 

California Wm.  Racker. 

Connecticut Hon,  David  Clark. 

Delaware None. 

Florida None. 

Georgia R.  S.  Mott. 

Illinois John  Went  worth. 

Indiana Geo,  W.  Julian. 

Iowa J.  A.  Romberg. 

Kansas Hon.  J.  J.  Crawford, 

Kentucky Tabant  T.  Moore. 

Louisiana L,  T,  Delasize. 

Maine S.  W.  Perkins. 

Maryland Henry  W.  Hoffinan. 

Massachusetts Gen.  W.  T.  Bartlett. 

Michigan 0.  P.  Clark. 

Minnesota Aaron  Gorduc. 

Mississippi Col.  Cook, 

Missouri ...   Josiah  Forbes. 

The  following  are  the  principal  Secretaries :  1.  Gen. 
W.  E.  McLelane,  of  Indiana ;  2.  John  V.  Davidson,  of 
Minnesota  ;  3.  F.  W.  Wright,  of  Maine  ;  4.  J.  D.  Ehodes, 
of  Ohio. 

The  following  is  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Cre- 
dentials : 

In  the  case  of  the  contest  in  the  New  York  delegation,  after  fully  and 
carefully  considering  the  subject  matter  of  the  protest,  we  report  the  Ibllow- 
ing  resolution : 

Resolved^  That  in  the  opinion  of  this  Committee  the  contestants  in  the 
Convention,  from  the  Btate  of  New  York,  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this  Con- 
vention. 

In  relation  to  the  California  delegation,  we  report  the 
following  : 

Iksohed,  That,  in  the  absence  of  such  credentials  as  seem  sufficiently  reg- 
ular, this  Committee  cannot  report  the  name  of  Mrs.  Laura  D.  Gordon  as  a 
delegate  to  this  Convention  from  California,  but  recommend  that  she  and 
other  ladies  present  be  tendered  the  courtesy  of  the  hall  of  the  Convention ; 
and  that,  further,  that  Col.  W,  M.  Rickerby  is  entitled  to  cast  the  entire  vote 
of  California,  and  that  the  other  contestants  are  not  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
Convention.    All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 

THOS.  W.  WORRELL,  Chairman. 


Byron  Sherry,  1  Secretaries. 

Robert  K.  FLEMrNo,   j 


On  motion,  the  report  was  adopted. 

The  Committee  on  Eules  reported  as  follows : 

The  Committee  organized  by  electing  Theodore  Tilton,  of  New  York,  aa 
Chairman,  and  H.  L,  Bu.nett,  of  Ohio,  as  Secretary.  All  but  three  States 
were  represented.     The  Committee  have  the  honor  to  report  as  follows : 

First.  That  the  mles  and  regulations  governing  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives of  the  United  States  shall  be  the  rules  governing  this  body,  provided 
that  no  delegates  shall  be  entitled  to  speak  more  than  once  upon  the  same 
question,  and  shall  be  limited  to  five  minutes,  except  the  mover  thereof,  who, 
in  cloging  debate,  shall  be  entitled  to  five  minutes  more. 


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Second.  The  delegation  from  each  State  shall  cast  the  entire  vote  of  the 
State  and  every  delegate  shall  represent  such  a  proportion  of  the  entire  vote 
as  he' shall  be  of  the  delegation  present,  and  his  vote  shall  be  reported  to  the 
Convention  by  the  Chairman  of  the  delegation  as  cast  by  the  delegate. 

Third.  In  voting  for  candidates  for  President  and  Vice-President  of  the 
United  States,  a  majority  of  all  the  votes  shall  be  requisite  to  a  choice. 

Fourth.  To  facilitate  the  business  of  th©  Convention,  the  Yeas  and  Nays 
ihall  not  be  called,  but  a  division  of  the  Convention  may  be  had  by  a  call  of 
the  States. 

THEODORE  TILTON,  Chairman. 

H.  L.  Burnett,  Secretary. 

The  report  was  thereupon  adopted. 

Mr.  Weir,  of  Indiana,  moved  to  proceed  with  the  nom- 
ination of  candidates.     [Loud  applause.] 

Gen.  Cochrane  trusted  that  a  motion  so  pregnant  with 
evil  would  not  prevail  at  this  time.  He  was  quite  sure  the 
ereat  body  of  this  Convention  had  not  assembled  merely 
tor  the  purpose  of  experimenting  upon  names,  nor  indeed 
of  nominating  candidates  to  the  high  Executive  oflBces  of 
this  Government,  without  first  determining  what  were  the 
principles  in  which  they  believed.  Then,  and  not  until 
then,  would  the  majestic  voice  of  the  Convention  be  pre- 
pared to  announce  the  names  of  those  who  should  repre- 
sent those  principles.  Until  then  it  would  be  an  experi- 
ment— a  vain,  and  he  believed,  a  futile  experiment — to  be 
casting  about  for  names.  They  were  not  here  to  express 
their  individual  proclivities.  He  trusted  the  Convention 
would  proceed  wisely  and  with  dignity  to  the  work  for 
which  they  were  met,  that  no  false  step  might  be  taken, 
but  when  a  step  was  taken  that  there  would  be  no  step 
backward.  Let  them  be  patient  until  the  Committees  be 
prepared  to  report,  and  he  hoped  the  Convention  would 
not  rashly  i)roceed  to  put  men  before  the  people  before 
they  had  ascertained  the  principles  in  which  they  believed. 
[Loud  cheers.] 

Gen.  Cochrane  then  moved  to  lay  the  motion  on  the 
table. 

After  a  few  words  of  explanation,  he  withdrew  his  mo- 
tion temporarily,  at  the  request  of  Col.  McClure. 

The  Chairman  announced  that  the  Committee  on  Eeso- 
lutions  had  been  unable  to  come  to  a  unanimity  of  opinion, 
and  had  adjourned  till  5  o'clock. 

The  delegate  from  Indiana  thought  it  was  unimport- 
ant whether  the  Convention  made  their  nominations  before 
or  after  the  report  of  the  Committees.  They  were  ready 
to  ballot,  but  the  Committee  was  not  ready  to  report,  and 
he  therefore  trusted  that  the  Convention  would  proceed 
with  the  ballots.     [Loud  cheers.] 


of 


A  delegate  from  Illinois    said,  that  one  great   object 
the  Convention  was  for  a  declaration  of  principles,  is 


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well  as  for  the  nomination  of  candidates  ;  but  he  wanted 
first  to  know  what  the  i>latform  was  goin^  to  be.  Who 
ever  dared  to  make  propositions  and  ballot  for  candidates, 
without  first  having  a  platform  containing  the  principles 
upon  which  they  were  to  vote  ? 

The  motion  to  lay  on  the  table  was  then  renewed,  and 
Weir's  motion  was  tabled  on  the  call  of  States  by  a  vote 
of  557  to  148. 

The  Chairman  of  the  Credentials  Committee  here  an- 
nounced that  the  Committee  had  acted  on  erroneous 
information  in  reporting  that  only  one  delegate  here  was 
entitled  to  cast  the  entire  vote  of  California.  He  moved, 
and  the  Convention  agreed  also,  to  admit  B.  E.  Nickerson, 
who  claimed  to  be  a  resident  of  California,  and  proposed 
to  stump  the  State  for  the  ticket  nominated  here.  All 
California  contestants  were  also  invited  to  seats  as  hon- 
orary members  of  the  Convention. 

A  delegate  from  Kentucky  offered  the  following  resolu- 
tion, which  was  referred  : 

Resolved^  That  the  franking  privilege  is  an  unqualified  abuse,  and  ought 
to  be  abolished. 

The  following  resolution  was  introduced  and  tabled  : 

Resolved^  That  when  this  Convention  shall  proceed  to  ballot  for  a  candidate 
for  President  and  Vice-President,  it  shall  be  by  call  of  the  States,  and  that 
the  same  proceed  without  the  formality  of  nomination, 

A  series  of  resolutions  were  offered  by  a  ]S"ew  Jersey 
delegate  in  favor  of  general  amnesty,  universal  suffrage, 
resumption  of  specie  payments,  reform  of  the  internal 
revenue  law,  revision  of  taxation,  &c.,  which  he  moved 
should  be  adopted  as  the  platform  of  the  Convention.  The 
Chair  ruled  that  they  must  be  referred  to  the  Platform 
Committee. 

A  recess  was  then  taken  until  7.30  p.  m. 


EVENING  SESSION. 
The  Convention  came  together  promptly  at  7.30  o*clock, 
the  attendance  being  even  greater  than  in  the  afternoon. 
Every  available  inch  of  space  was  occupied,  there  being 
about  2,000  ladies  present.  Promptly,  at  the  appointed 
time.  Senator  Schurz  called  the  Convention  to  order,  say- 
ing that  the  Committee  on  Eesolutions  would  not  be  able 
to  report  the  result  of  their  labors  to-night,  in  consequence 
of  the  large  number  of  papers  laid  before  them.  He  sug- 
gested that  the  time  be  occupied  in  making  the  speeches 
accompanying  the  nominations.  The  Committee  on  Eeso- 
lutions requested  that  the  adjournment  be  until  11  o'clock, 
Friday. 


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Mr.  Cochrane  of  New  York  moved  to  proceed  with  the 
presentation  of  candidates,  each  person  making  a  nom- 
ination to  be  allowed  10  minutes  for  a  speech.  The 
motion  was  put  and  decided  in  the  affirmative  by  a  close 
vote. 

A  New  York  delegate  offered  a  resolution  in  favor  of 
equal  political  rights  and  general  amnesty,  which  was  re- 
ferred. 

A  resolution  was  adopted  providing  that  a  delegate 
from  each  State  be  selected  to  act  on  the  National  Execu- 
tive Committee. 

Mr.  Stansberry  of  New  Jersey  offered  a  platform  of 
principles  embracing  revenue  reform,  civil  service  reform, 
universal  and  unqualified  amnesty,  resistance  to  centraliz- 
ation of  power,  reservation  of  the  public  lands  for  actual 
settlement  under  the  Homestead  Act,  economy  in  expen-^ 
ditures,  and  reduction  of  taxation,  gradual  payment  of  the 
public  debt,  protection  to  citizens  in  their  rights  under  all 
circumstances.     Eeferred. 

Ethan  Allen  offered  a  resolution  authorizing  the  State 
delegations  to  form  State  Committees.    Adopted. 

A  delegate  from  Indiana  offered  a  resolution  pledging 
the  Convention  not  to  adjourn  until  candidates  for  Presi- 
dent and  Vice-President  had  been  nominated. 

Mr.  Woodhouse  of  Pennsylvania  offered  a  resolution 
declaring  that  it  is  inexpedient  to  nominate  a  candidate 
for  President  who  is  afflicted  with  a  large  circle  of  relatives. 
Adopted  amid  much  laughter. 

Mr.  J.  H.  Ehodes,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  offered  the  following 
resolution,  which  was  received  with  cheers  and  referred  to 
the  Committee  on  Eesolutions  : 

Whereas^  The  President  of  the  United  States  is  an  executive  and  not  a 
legislative  officer  of  the  Government,  inforcing,  not  making  laws ;  and 

Whereas^  The  delegates  of  this  Convention  hold  diverse  opinions  on  the 
Tariff  question,  as  to  whether  it  should  be  for  revenue  purposes  only;  there- 
fore 

Hesohed,  That  this  question  be  referred  to  the  Congress  Districts  as  an  issue 
to  be  properly  made  there,  and  that  the  will  of  the  people,  as  thus  expressed, 
should  be  the  policy  of  the  Administration. 

A  motion  to  adjourn  until  9  o'clock  on  Friday  morning 
was  lost. 

Mr.  Hudson  of  Indiana  moved  the  suspension  of  the 
rules,  and  that  the  Convention  take  up  the  Tariff  resolu- 
tion and  act  on  it  finally. 

The  Convention  was  thrown  into  partial  confusion  by  a 
vehement  discussion  about  proceeding  to  present  candi- 
dates, There  was  general  anxiety  to  get  the  floor,  and 
excited  speeches  were  made,  some  urging  immediate 
action,  others  demanding  that  the  Tariff  issue,  which,  it 


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is  announced,  the  Committee  on  Resolutions  and  Platform 
could  not  agree  about,  shall  be  settled  by  the  Conventions 
by  leaving  the  whole  question  to  Congress  Districts.  As 
each  speaker  made  some  point  considered  strong  by  one 
side  or  the  other,  loud  cheers  and  hand-clappings  greeted 
it.  There  was  more  feeling,  excitement,  and  vociferous- 
ness  than  at  any  previous  period  of  the  Convention.  The 
vote  by  States  to  suspend  the  rules  to  admit  the  considera- 
tion of  a  resolution  on  the  Tariff  question  was  accompanied 
by  tumultuous  cheering,  both  as  regards  Yeas  and  Nays. 
The  call  of  States  on  a  motion  to  suspend  the  rules  resulted 
as  follows  :  Yeas,  460 ;  Nays,  229,  thus  carrying  the  propo- 
sition by  two  votes  more  than  required — two-thirds. 

The  Chair  announced  that  a  Tariff  resolution  had  been 
adopted  by  the  Committee  on  Eesolutions,  and  he  suggested 
the  propriety  of  delaying  further  action  until  the  Commit- 
tee reported. 

Mr.  J.  H.  Ehodes,  of  Cleveland,  moved  that  his  Tariff 
resolution,  referred  to  the  Committee,  be  returned  to  the 
Convention.    The  resolution  was  read  again. 

Cassius  M.  Clay  said  he  had  known  all  along  that  this 
Tariff  question  was  where  the  difficulty  of  the  Convention 
would  lie.  He  counseled  exclusion  of  the  apple  of  discord, 
and  claimed  that  the  Tariff  question  was  overshadowed  in 
importance  by  questions  of  restoring  popular  rights  and  . 
sovereignty  to  the  people  of  the  Southern  States,  and 
several  other  great  issues  already  j)resented  to  the  Conven- 
tion. 

Judge  Matthews,  of  Ohio,  said  he  had  voted  to  avoid  dis- 
cussion on  this  point,  because  provision  had  been  made  for 
these  things  by  the  appointment  of  the  Committee  on  Re- 
solutions, and,  by  vote  of  the  Convention,  referring,  with- 
out debate,  all  propositions ;  and  that  Committee,  by  almost 
unanimous  vote,  had  decided  upon  propositions,  which 
would  be  submitted ;  but,  if  there  was  to  be  a  light,  he 
wanted  a  fair  one,  and  proposed  the  Missouri  Tariff  plank 
as  follows  : 

Mesoked,  That  no  fomi  of  taxation  is  just  or  wise  whicli  puts  needless  bur- 
dens upon  the  people.  We  demand  a  genuine  reform  of  the  Tariff,  so  that 
duties  shall  be  removed  which,  iu  addition  to  the  revenue  yielded  to  the 
treasury,  involve  increase  in  the  price  of  domestic  products,  and  a  consequent 
tax  for  the  benefit  of  favored  interests. 

Mr.  Matthews  continuing,  said  one  of  the  reasons  why 
he  entered  this  movement  was  that  he  might  assist  in 
emancipating  the  politics  and  business  of  the  country  from 
the  domination  of  rings.  [Cheers.]  Political  rings  in 
Washington,  Railroad  rings  which  are  stealing  our  public 
lands  [great  cheers],  and  pig-iron  rings,  which  arc  robbing 
the  country  [applause],  while  pretending  to  relieve  the 


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burdens  of  the  people  by  taking  the  taxes  off  tea  and  coffee 
in  order  that  they  might  keep  them  on  salt  and  iron. 
[Great  applause.] 

Mr.  Atkinson,  of  Massachussetts,  as  a  member  of  the 
Committee  on  Eesolutions,  informed  the  Convention  that 
delay  in  its  report  was  not  now  caused  by  the  Tariff  ques- 
tion! The  plank  on  that  subject  to  be  reported  had  been 
decided  in  Committee* by  nearly  a  unanimous  vote.  I  can- 
not report  the  vote  properly,  but  you  will  see  that  by  at- 
tempting irregular  measures  to  get  on  faster,  you  will  only 
be  getting  on  slower.  In  order  to  keep  any  bitter  discus- 
sions off  "this  floor,  the  Sub-Committee  has  acted,  and  the 
whole  Committee  has  acted,  in  such  a  way  that  I  think 
you  will  do  wisely  in  waiting  their  reports.  I  move  to  lay 
the  pending  resolution  on  the  table.  [Loud  cries  of 
*'  Question  !  "] 

The  motion  to  table  was  adopted  amid  confusion.  A 
motion  was  made  and  adopted  to  call  the  roll  of  States^  for 
the  presentation  of  Presidential  candidates.  Much  excite- 
ment ensued,  when  the  motion  was  sprung  and  carried  to 
adjourn  till  10  o'clock  to-morrow  morning. 


THIED  DAY'S  PEOCEEDINGS. 
Friday,  May  3. 

The  Convention  was  called  to  order  at  10:10  o'clock. 
The  reading  of  the  journal  was  dispensed  with.  The  Chair 
stated  that  the  statement  in  a  morning  paper,  pretending 
to  give  a  dispatch  from  him  (Schurz)  to  a  candidate,  was 
utterly  untrue. 

Mr.  Gilmore  (Mo.)  offered  a  resolution  that  when  the 
Convention  reaches  the  point  of  balloting  for  candidates 
there  shall  be  no  formal  presentation  of  candidates,  but 
that  the  Convention  proceed  to  vote, 

Mr.  Dexter  (111.)  sustained  the  proposition.  He  said  he 
wanted  to  proceed  to  business,  and  avoid  mere  personal 
eulogies.    The  resolution  was  carried. 

Mr.  Horace  White,  from  the  Committee  on  Platform, 
reported  an  address  and  a  series  of  resolutions  which  had 
been  unanimously  adopted  by  the  Committee. 

THE  ADDRESS. 
The  Administration  now  in  power  has  rendered  itself  guilty  of  wanton 
legard  of  the  laws  of  the  land,  and  usurped  powers  not  granted  by  the 
istitution.  It  has  acted  as  if  the  laws  had  binding  force  only  for  those 
who  are  governed,  and  not  for  those  who  govern.  It' has  thus  struck  a  blow 
at  the  fundamental  principles  of  constitutional  government  and  the  liberty  ot 
the  citizen.  The  President  of  the  United  States  has  openly  used  the  powers 
and  opportunities  of  his  high  office  for  the  promotion  of  pei*sonal  ends.  He 
has  kept  notoriously  corrupt  and  unworthy  men  in  places  of  power  and  re- 


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sponsibility  to  the  detriment  of  the  public  interest.  lie  has  used  the  pnblic 
service  of  the  Government  as  a  machinery  of  partisan  and  personal  influence, 
and  interfered  with  tyrannical  arrogance  in  the  political  aftairs  of  States  and 
municipalities.  He  has  rewarded,  with  influential  and  lucrative  oftices,  men 
who  had  acquired  his  favor  by  valuable  presents;  thus  stimulating  demorali- 
zation of  our  political  life  by  his  conspicuous  example.  He  has  shown  him- 
self deplorably  unequal  to  the  tasks  imposed  upon  him  by  the  necessities  of 
the  country,  and  culpably  careless  of  the  responsibilities  of  his  higli  office. 
The  partisans  of  the  Administration,  assuming  to  be  the  Republican  party, 
and  controlling  its  organization,  have  attempted  to  justify  such  wrongs  and 
palliate  such  abuses,  to  the  end  of  maintaining  partisan  ascendency.  They 
have  stood  in  the  way  of  necessary  investigations  and  indispensable  reforms, 
pretending  that  no  serious  fault  could  be  found  with  the  present  administra- 
tion of  public  affairs ;  thus  seeking  to  blind  the  eyes  of  the  people.  They 
have  kept  alive  the  passions  and  resentments  of  the  late  eivil  war,  to  use  them 
for  their  own  advantage. 

They  have  resorted  to  arbitrary  measures  in  direct  conflict  with  the  or- 
ganic law,  instead  of  appealing  to  the  better  instincts  and  latent  patriotism 
of  the  Southern  people  by  restoring  to  them  those  rights,  the  enjoyment  of 
which  is  indispensable  lor  a  successfVil  administration  of  their  local  afiiiirs, 
and  would  tend  to  move  a  patriotic  and  hopeful  national  feeling.  They  have 
degraded  themselves  and  the  name  of  their  party,  once  justly  entitled  to  the 
confidence  of  the  nation,  by  a  base  sycophancy  to  the  dispenser  of  executive 
power  and  patronage  unworthy  of  Republican  freemen ;  they  have  sought  to 
stifle  the  voice  of  just  criticism,  to  stifle  the  moral  sense  of  the  people,  and  to 
subjugate  public  opinion  by  tyrannical  party  discipline.  They  are  striving  to 
maintain  themselves  in  authority  for  selfish  ends  by  an  unscrupulous  use  of 
the  power  which  rightfully  belongs  to  the  people,  and  should  be  employed 
only  in  the  service  of  the  country.  Believing  that  an  organization  thus  led 
and  controlled  can  no  longer  be  of  service  to  the  best  interests  of  the  Repub- 
lic, we  have  resolved  to  make  an  independent  appeal  to  the  sober  judgment, 
conscience,  and  patriotism  of  the  American  people. 

THE  PLATFORM. 

We,  the  Liberal  Republicans  of  tlie  United  States,  in 
National  Convention  assembled  at  Cincinnati,  proclaim 
the  following  principles  as  essential  to  just  government: 

First:  We  recognize  the  equality  of  all  men  before 
the  law,  and  hold  that  it  is  the  duty  of  Government,  in  its 
dealings  with  the  people,  to  mete  out  equal  and  exact  jus- 
tice to  all,  of  whatever  nativity,  race,  color,  or  persuasion, 
religious  or  political. 

SeconcLJ$I^.j^^gQ  ourselves  to  maintain  the  Union 
of  these  States,  emancipation  and  enfranchisement,  and  to 
oppose  "any  reopening  of  the  questions  settled,  by  the 
Thirteenth,  Fouxteenth^md  Fiffeen^^  to  the 

Constitution. 

Third:  We  demand  the  immediate  and  absolute  re- 
moval of  all  disabilities  imposed  on  account  of  the  Rebel- 
lion, which  was  finally  subdued  seven  years  ago,  believing 
that-universal  amnesty_mll  rf^iilt.  in  rnmplpfff  pacification 
*in  all  sections  of  the  country. 


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Fourth :  Local  self-government,  with,  impartial  suffrage, 
will  guard  tli'e~ri^Ef3  of  aircrUTzens  more  securely  than  any 
centralized  power!  The  public  welfare  requires  the 
supremacy  of  the  civil  over  the  irnlitary  authority,  and 
freedoni  of  person  undeFffie'pfotection  of  the  haBeas~c6r- 
■^s.  liYe^SiahdTor'^the  individual  the  largest  liberty 
"Congistent  vvitfa~"pTrblicTrrder;  for  the  State,  self-go vern- 
rnpiit^^Rrir)  iciv  the  nation  a  return  to  the  methods  of  peace 
and  the  constitutional  limitations  oT  power. 

Fifth :  The  Civil  Service  of  the  Government  has  be- 
come a  mere  instrument  of  partisan  tyranny  and  personal 
ambition,  and  an  object  of  selfish  greed.  It  is  a  scandal 
and  reproach  upon  free  institutions,  and  breeds  a  demoral- 
ization dangerous  to  the  perpetuity  of  republican  govern- 
ment. We  therefore  regard  such  thorough  reforms  of  the 
Civil  Service  as  one  of  the  most  pressing  necessities  of  the 
hour;  that  honesty,  capacity,  and  fidelity  constitute  the 
only  valid  claim  to  public  employment ;  that  the  offices  of 
the  Government  cease  to  be  a  matter  of  arbitrary  favoritism 
and  patronage,  and  that  public  station  become  again  a 
post  of  honor.  To  this  end  it  is  imperatively  required 
that  no  President  shall  be  a  candidate  for  re-election. 

Sixth:  We  demand  a  system  of  Federal  taxation 
whic^  shall  not  unnecessarily  interfere  with  the  industry 
of  the  people,  and  which  shall  provide  the  means  neces- 
sary to  pay  the  expenses  of  the  Government  economically 
administered,  the  pensions,  the  interest  on  the  public 
debt,  and  a  moderate  reduction  annually  of  the  principal 
thereof;  and,  recognizing  that  there  are  in  our  midst 
honest  but  irreconcilable  differences  of  opinion  with  regard 
to  the  respective  systems  of  Protection  and  Free  Trade,  we 
remit  the  discussion  of  the  subject  to  the  people  in  theii* 
Congress  Districts,  and  to  the  decision  of  Congress  there- 
on, wholly  free  of  Executive  interference  or  dictation. 

Seventh:  The  public  credit  must  be  sacredly  main- 
tained, and  WG  denounce  'repudiation  in  every  form  and 
guise. 

Eighth:  A  speedy  return  to  specie  payment  is  de- 
manded alike  by  the  highest  considerations  of  commercial 
morality  and  honest  government. 

Ninth  :  Wc  remember  with  gratitude  the  heroism  and 
sacrifices  of  the  soldiers  and  sailoi's  of  the  Kepublic,  and 


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no  act  of  ours  shall  ever  detract  from  their  justly-eanied 
fame  or  the  full  reward  of  their  patriotism. 

Tentli:  We  are  opposed  to  all  further  grants  nf  lands 
to  railroads  or  other  corporations.  The  public  domain 
should  be  held  sacred  to  actual  settlers. 

Eleventh  .•  We  hold  that  it  is  the  duty  of  the  Govern- 
ment, in  its  intercourse  with  foreign  nations,  to  cultivate 
the  friendship  of  peace,  by  treating  with  all  on  fair  and 
equal  terms,  regarding  it  alike  dishonorable  either  to  de- 
mand  what  is  not  right,  or  to  submit  to  what  is  wrong. 

^  Twelfth :  For  the  promotion  and  success  of  these  vital 
principles,  and  the  support  of  the  candidates  nominated 
by  this  Convention,  we  invite  and  cordially  welcome  the 
co-operation  of  all  patriotic  citizens,  without  regard  to 
previous  affiliations. 

A  Voice.— Three  cheers  for  the  Second  Declaration  of 
Independence.  [Great  cries  of  *'  question  "  overwhehued 
the  few  who  tried  to  get  the  floor  to  speak.]  The  Chair 
put  the  question,  and  the  report  was  adopted,  with  loud 
and  continued  cheering.  The  Chair  announced  the  vote 
unanimous. 


BAftLOTING  FOR  PRESIDENT. 

The  next  order  of  business  was  stated  by  the  Chair  to  be 
the  nomination  of  candidates  for  the  Presidency,  without 
the  formal  presentation  of  candidates.  The  roll  of  States 
was  then  called. 

Before  the  vote  was  announced,  Grat^  Brown,  by  unani- 
mous consent,  took  the  stand  and  thanked  his  friends  for 
their  support  of  him,  but  withdrew  his  name,  and  asked  his 
friends  to  support  Horace  Greeley.  [Great  cheers,  with 
many  persistent  hisses.] 

The  Chair  arose  to  announce  the  vote,  when  a  Missouri 
delegate  rose  to  a  question  of  privilege  and  asked  to  change 
his  vote.  Considerable  confusion  ensued,  various  delega- 
tions asking  to  change  their  votes,  contention  arising  in 
some  of  them,  notably  Kentucky,  as  to  what  the  changes 
among  themselves  really  were.  Cassius  M.  Clay  announced 
Kentucky's  vote  changed  five  from  Brown  to  Greeley,  and 
one  from  Brow^n  to  Adams.  Xew  Jersey  changed  som*.  of 
her  votes. 

The  Chair  announced  the  following  »s  the  result  of  the 

first  ballot : 


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Adams 205 

Trumbull 110 

Davis 92\ 

Greeley 147 

Brown 95 


Curtin 63 

Chase 2^ 


Total  vote 614 

Necessary  to  a  choice,  308. 

No  choice  was  made.    The  following  is  the  vote  in 
detail  ; 


Alabama. 

Trumbull 3 

Davis 2 

Greeley 7 

Brown 0 

Arkansas. 

Adams 1 

Trumbull 1 

Brown 1 

California. 

Davis 6 

Brown 1 

Connecticut. 

Adams 12 

Delaware. 

Adams 6 

Florida. 

Adams 6 

Georgia. 

Adams 2 

Trumbull 22 

Davis 2 

Greeley 4 

Brown 12 

Illinois. 

Trumbull 21 

Davis 21 

Indiana. 

Adams 8 

Trumbull 14 

Davis 6. 

Iowa. 

Trumbull » 9 

Davis 2 

Greeley 7 

Brown 4 

Kansas. 

Trumbull 10 

Kentucky. 

Adams 16 

Greeley 2 

Brown 6 

Louisiana. 

Adams.' 4 

Trumbull 8 

Greeley 2 

!Maine. 

Adams 14 

Maryland 

Adams 2 

Trumbull 1 

Davis t:i 


Massachusetts. 

Adams 22 

Trumbull : . . .  4 

Michigan. 

Adams 18 

Greeley 4 

Minnesota. 

Trumbull 9 

Davis 1 

Mississippi. 

Adams 4 

Trumbull 4 

Davis 2 

Greeley 6 

Missouri.  •    ^ 

Trumbull 3 

Brown 30 

Nebraska. 

Trumbull 3 

Greeley 2 

Brown 1 

Nevada. 

Brown 6 

New-Hampshire. 

Greeley 8 

New-Jersey. 

Adams 5 

Greeley 5 

Brown 7 

New- York. 

Adams 2 

Greeley 66 

North  Carolina. 

Davis 12| 

Greeley 5 

Ohio. 

Adams 44 

Oregon. 

Brown 6 

Pennsylvania. 

Curtin 56 

Rhode  Island. 

Adams 8 

South  Carolina. 

Trumbull 2 

Davis 12 

Tennessee. 

Adams 11 

Trumbull 6 

Davis 1 

Brown 4 


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Virginia. 

Trumbull 0 

Davis 5 

Greeley 5 

Curtin 6 

Wisconsin. 

Trumbull 6 

Davis 4 

Greeley 1 


Texas. 

Adams 2 

Greeley 14 

Vermont. 

Adams 1 

Greeley 7 

"^est  Virginia. 

Adams 5 

Davis 3 

Greeley 2 

Missouri  asked  leave  to  retire  for  consultation.  Vice- 
President  Julian  took  the  chair. 

Mr.  Casey  offered  a  resolution  giving  a  vote  to  the 
Territories,  which  was  tabled. 

Mr.  McGlure  withdrew  Gov.  Curtin's  name,  and  asked 
leave  for  the  Pennsylvania  delegation  to  retire,  which  re- 
quest was  granted,  the  proceedings  being  suspended  until 
the  return  of  the  absent  delegations. 

THE  SECOND  BALLOT. 

At  the  close  of  the  second  ballot  the  vote  stood : 


Greeley 239 

Adams 243 

Trumbull 148 


Davis 81 

Brown 2 

Chase 1 


California  changed  her  G  votes  for  Davis  to  Greeley, 
which  left  Greeley  245,  and  Davis  75.  Whole  vote,  714; 
necessary  to  a  choice,  858.  No  choice  was  made.  The  fol- 
lowing are  the  details ; 


Alabama. 

Greeley ...18 

Arkansas. 

Greeley 10 

Adams 2 

California. 

Greeley  12 

Connecticut. 

Adams 12 

Delaware. 

Trumbull 6 

Florida. 

Davis 6 

Georgia. 

Greeley 1^ 

Adams 2 

Brown 2 

Illinois. 

Davis 21 

Trumbull 21 

Indiana. 

Adams 9 

Davis 2 

Trumbull 16 

Iowa. 

Adams 10 

Greeley ^ 

Trumbull 5 

Davis •  1 


Kansas. 

Trumbull 10 

Kentucky. 

Adams 19 

Greeley •"> 

Louisiana. 

Greeley 2 

Adams 4 

Trumbull 8 

Maine. 

Adams 14 

•Maryland. 

Davis 10 

Trumbull 3 

Adams 2 

Greeley 1 

Massachusetts. 

Trumbull ^ 

Adams -2 

Michigan. 

Adams ^2 

Minnesota. 

Trumbull » 

Davis 1 

Mississippi. 

Trumbull .^.  ^ 8 

Greeley ^.    I 8 


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Missouii. 

Trumbull 16 

Greeley 10 

Adams 4 

Nebraska. 

Greeley 1 

Trumbull 5 

Nevada. 

Greeley     6 

New  Hampshire. 

Greeley 8 

New  Jersey. 

Greeley .13 

Adams 5 

New  York. 

Greeley 65 

Adams 2 

Trumbull 1 

North  Carolina. 

Trumbull 9 

Greeley  8 

Davis 3 

Ohio. 

Adams . .  42 

Greeley 2 

Oregon. 

Greeley 6 

Pennsylvania. 

Chase 1 

Davis 11 

Greeley  18 

Adams 26 


Rhode  Island. 

Adams S 

South  Carolina. 

Davis 12 

Trumbull 2 

Tennessee. 

Adams 11 

Trumbull 9 

Greeley 1 

Davis 1 

Texas. 

Greeley  13 

Adams 8 

Vermont. 

Greeley 7 

Adams 1 

Virginia. 

Greeley 4 

Adams 2 

Davis 2 

Trumbull 14 

West  Virginia. 

Adams 6 

Greeley 1 

Davis 3 

Wisconsin. 

Adams 15 

Trumbull 2 

Davis    2 

Greeley 1 


THIRD  BALLOT. 

At  the  end  of  the  third  call  the  vote  footed  up  as  fol- 
lows : 

Whole  number 714 

Necessary  to  a  choice 358 

Greeley  258 

Trumbull 156 


Adams 264 

Davis 44 

Brown 2 


The  following  is  the  vote  in  detail : 


Alabama. 

Greeley  18 

Arkansas. 

Adams    2 

Greeley 10 

California. 

Greeley 12 

Connecticut. 

Adams 12 

Delaware. 

Trumbull 6 

Florida. 

Adtims 6 

Georgia. 

Brown 2 

Adams  ^ 2 

Greeley  ■• 18 


ns^ . 

I 


Illinois. 

Trumbull 21 

Davis 21 

Indiana. 

Adams 6 

Greeley  6 

Trumbull 16 

Iowa. 

Adams 10 

Greeley  8 

Trumbull 4 

Kansas. 

Trumbull 10 

Kentucky. 

Adams 19 

Greeley 6 


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Louisiana. 

Greeley 2 

Adams 4 

Trumbull 8 

Mississippi. 

Greeley 11 

Adams 5 

Maine. 

Adams 14 

Maryland. 

Adams 6 

Trumbull 6 

Greeley 4 

Massachusetts. 

Adams 22 

Trumbull 4 

Michigan. 

Adams 22 

Minnesota. 

Trumbull 9 

Davis 1 

Missouri. 

Nebraska. 

Greeley 1 

Trumbull 5 

Nevada. 

Greeley  . . 6 

New  Hampshire. 

Greeley 8 

New  Jersey. 

Greeley 13 

Adams 5 

New  York. 

Greeley 65 

Adams 2 

Trumbull 1 

North  Carolina. 

Trumbull 14 

Greeley 3 

Adams 3 


Oregon. 

Greeley 8 

Trumbull 13 

Greeley 12 

Adams 5 

Ohio. 

Adams 40 

Greeley 2 

Pennsylvania. 

Trumbull 1 

Davis 0 

Greeley 18 

Adams 31 

Rhode  Island. 

Adams 8 

South  Carolina. 

Davis 12 

Trumbull 2 

Tennessee. 

Adanos 11 

TrumKJl 9 

Greeley 2 

Texas. 

•      Greeley  13 

Adams 3 

Vermont. 

Greeley 7 

Adams 1 

Virginia. 

Davis 1 

Greeley 4 

Trumbull 17 

West  Virginia. 

Adams 5 

Greeley 2 

Davis 3 

Wisconsin. 

Greeley 2 

Adams 18 


FOURTH  BALLOT. 

There  being  no  choice,  the  roll  was  called  for  the  fourth 
time,  which  resulted  as  follows : 

Whole  vote  cast 724  Trumbull IJJ 

Necessary  to  a  choice 363  Davis oj 

Adams 279  Brown - 

Greeley 251  No  choice  was  made. 

The  following  are  the  details  of  the  vote  : 


Alabama. 

Greeley 18 

Arkansas. 

Adams 2 

Greeler 10 

Califorcia. 

Greeley 12 

Connecticut. 

Adams 12 


Delaware. 

Trumbull 
Florida. 

Adams  . . 
Georgia. 

Brown . . . 

Adams  . . 

Greeley . . 


IS 


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Tllmois. 

Davis 21 

Trnmbull 31 

Indiana. 

Adams 7 

Greeley T 

Trumbull 14 

Iowa. 

Adams 16 

Greeley C 

Kansas. 

Trumbull  10 

Kentucky. 

Adams 19 

Greeley •  5 

Louisiana. 

Greeley 3 

Adams 4 

Trumbull 8 

Maine. 

Adams 14 

Maryland. 

Adams 13 

Trumbull 4 

Massachusetts. 

Trumbull 4 

Adams 32 

Michigan. 

Adams 32 

Minnesota. 

Trumbull 9 

Davis 1 


Greeley 8 

Adams 8 

Missouri, 

Trumbull 11 

Greeley 16 

Adams 3 

Nebraska. 

Greeley 1 

Trumbull 5 

Nevada. 

Greeley 6 

New  Hampshire. 

Greeley 8 


New  Jersey. 

Greeley 18 

Adams 5 

New  York. 

Greeley 62 

Adams 5 

Trumbull 1 

North  Carolina. 

Greeley 3 

Trumbull 17 

Ohio. 

Adams 42 

Greeley 2 

Oregon. 

Greeley 6 

Pennsylvania. 

Trumbull 3 

Davis 5 

Adams 32 

Greeley 17 

Rhode  Island. 

Adams 8 

South  Carolina. 

Trumbull 3 

Davis 12 

Tennessee.  * 

Adams 11 

Trumbull 10 

Greeley 1 

Texas. 

Greeley 13 

Adams 3 

Vermont. 

Greeley 7 

Adams 1 

Virginia. 

Greeley 4 

Adams 1 

Trumbull 16 

Davis 1 

West  Virginia.  '' 

Adams 3 

Greeley 6 

Davis 1 

Trumbull 1 

Wisconsin. 

Adams SO 


poll 


FIFTH  BALLOT. 

stood  as  follows  at  the 


The 
ballot : 

Whole  number 714 

Necessary  to  a  choice 358 

Adams 309 

Greeley 258 

The  details  are  as  follows  : 

Alabama. 

Greelev  18 


close  of  the  fifth 


Trumbull 91 

Davis 30 

Hrown 2 

Chase 34 


Arkansas. 

Greeley 10 

Adams 3 


California. 

Greeley 12 

Connecticut. 

Adams 12 

Delaware. 

Adams 6 

Florida. 

Adams 6 

Georgia. 

Greeley < 18 

Adams 2 

Brown 2 

Illinois. 

Trumbull 21 

Davis 21 

Indiana. 

Adams 11 

Trumbull 7 

Greeley 10 

Iowa. 

Adams 16 

Greeley 6 

Kansas. 

Adams 10 

Kentucky. 

Adams 19 

Greeley 5 

Louisiana. 

Trumbull 3 

Adams 5 

Greeley 6 

Maine. 

Adams 14 

Maryland. 

Adams 12 

Trumbull 4 

Massachusetts. 

Trumbull 4 

Adams 22 

Michigan. 

Adams  . . .' 22 

Minnesota. 

Trumbull 9 

Davis 1 

Mississippi. 

Adams 5 

Greeley 8 

Trumbull 3 

Missouri. 

Adams 4 

Greeley 18 

Trumbull 8 

Nebraska. 


Nevada. 

Greeley G 

New  Hampshire. 

Greeley 8 

New  Jersey. 

Greeley 18 

Adams 6 

New  York. 

Greeley 62 

Adams .5 

Trumbull 1 

North  Carolina. 

Greeley 5 

Adams ft 

TmmbuU 7 

Davis 8 

Ohio. 

Adams 42 

Greeley 2 

Oregon. 

Greeley 6 

Pennsylvania. 

Trumbull 1 

Davis 4 

Greeley 13 

Adams 32 

Chase 1 

Rhode  Island. 

Adams 8 

South  Carolina. 

Chase 14 

Tennessee. 

Adams 12 

Trumbull    9 

Greeley 1 

Texas. 

Greeley 13 

Adams >. 3 

Vermont. 

Adams 4 

Greeley 4 

Virginia. 

Adams 1 

Greeley 4 

Trumbull 8 

Chase 2 

West  Virginia, 

Adams 6 

Greeley 8 

Davis 1 

Wisconsin. 

Adams 18 

Greeley '^ 


Trumbull 6 

The  announcement  of  Adams*  vote  was  received  with 
great  cheers. 

SIXTH  AND  liAST  BALLOT. 

The  sixth  ballot  was  ordered  amid  a  scene  of  great  con- 
fusion.   Missouri  asked  leave  to  retire  for  consultation. 


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A  motion  was  made  for  a  recess  for  twenty  minutes, 
[Cries  of  No  !  No  !  Sit  down.]  The  motion  was  lost  by 
an  overwhelming  vote.  After  an  interval  of  twenty  minutes 
Mr.  Goodrich  (Minn.)  moved  that  in  the  future  ballots, 
when  the  votes  of  the  States  have  been  polled,  no  changes 
shall  be  allowed  except  on  an  entire  recall  of  the  roll. 
Without  taking  a  vote  on  this  question,  the  call  of  the  roll 
was  proceeded  with.  The  following  was  the  result  of  the 
poll  at  the  close  of  the  roll  call  of  States  on  the  sixth  bal- 
lot, and  before  the  vote  was  announced ; — 

Adams 324    Davis 6 

Greeley 332     Chase 32 

Trumbull 19    Palmer 1 

The  following  are  the  details  of  the  sixth  ballot,  as  it 
stood  before  the  vote  was  announced  :^- 


Alabama. 

Greeley 18 

Arkansas. 

Greeley  10 

Adams 2 

California. 

Greeley .12 

Connecticut. 

Adams 12 

Delaware. 

Adams 6 

Florida. 

Chase 6 

Georgia. 

Greeley 22 

Illinois. 

Adams 27 

Greeley 14 

Trumbull 1 

Indiana. 

Greeley 19 

Adams 8 

Palmer 1 

Iowa. 

Adams 17 

Greeley 5 

Kansas. 

Adams 5 

Trumbull 2 

Greeley 3 

Kentucky. 

Adams ,19 

Greeley 5 

Louisiana. 

Greeley 7 

.  Adams 7 

Maine. 

Adams 14 

Maryland. 

Greeley 3 

Adams 1 

Trumbull 2 


Massachusetts. 

Chase 4 

Adams 22 

Michigan. 

Greeley 2 

Adams 20 

Minnesota. 

Trumbull 9 

Davis 1 

Mississippi. 

Adams 10 

Greeley 10 

Missouri. 

Greeley 18 

Adams 12 

Nebraska. 

Greeley  6 

Nevada. 

Greeley 6 

New-Hampshire. 

Greeley 8 

New-Jersey. 

Greeley 13 

Adams 6 

New  York. 

Greeley 62 

Adams 5 

Trumbull 1 

North  Carolina. 

Greeley 17 

Adams 3 

Ohio. 

Adams  .  , , . .  42 

Greeley 2 

Oregon. 

Greeley 6 

Pennsylvania. 

Chase 1 

Trumbull 1 

Davis 4 

Greeley 18 

Adams ♦ 32 


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ilhode  Island.  Virginia. 

Adams 8  Greeley 7 

South  Carolina.  Chase 7 

Chase 12  Adams  ...'./....'..'..... 8 

Greeley 2  West  Virginia. 

Tennessee.  Greeley 7 

TrmnbuU 3  Chase 3 

Adams 9  Davis 1 

Greeley 10  Wisconsin 

Texas.  Adams 13 

Greeley  13  Greeley  3 

Adams 3 

Vermont. 

Adams 1 

Greeley 7 

Before  the  vote  was  announced,  Minnesota  changed  9 
from  Trumbull  to  Greeley.  Various  States  changed  their 
votes.  A  scene  of  great  confusion  and  noise  followed.  Mr. 
McClure  changed  Pennsylvania  to  50  for  Greeley  and  6  for 
Davis.  [Great  cheers.]  Indiana  changed  to  27  for  Adams. 
A  stampede  of  changes  to  Greeley  here  occurred,  and  the 
noise  and  confusion  that  followed  were  very  great. 

Illinois  changed  solid  to  Greeley,  except  one  delegate, 
who  insisted  that  his  vote  should  stand  for  Trumbull.  The 
Chair  finally  announced  the  result  as  follows  : — 

Whole  vote 714  I  Adams 187 

Necessary  to  a  choice 358  |  Greeley 482 

Mr.  Casement  moved  to  make  the  nomination  unani- 
mous, but  it  was  declared  lost,  as  there  were  many  Nays 
before  the  vote  was  announced. 

Gail  Cochrane  inquired  if  Mr.  Greeley  had  a  majority  of 
all  the  votes  cast.  The  Chair  said  "Yes,"  and  therefore 
Horace  Greeley  was  nominated  as  the  candidate  for  the 
Presidency  by  this  Convention. 

BALLOTING  FOR  VICE-PRESIDENT. 

On  motion,  it  was  ordered  to  proceed  to  the  nomination 
of  a  Vice-President  immediately,  and  the  roll  was  called  as 
follows : 

Alabama,  B.  Gratz  Brown,  18 ;  Arkansas,  Brown,  12  ; 
California,  Brown,  12  ;  Delaware,  Albert  Torbert  of  Dela- 
ware, 12 ;  Florida,  Brown,  6. 

Here  the  Illinois  and  New  York  delegations  retired  for 
consultation,  and  the  roll-call  was  temporarily  susi)ended. 
On  recalling  the  roll,  Delaware  voted  for  Trumbull.  A 
delegate  inquired  whether  Mr.  Trumbull  was  a  candidate 
for  Vice-President,  and  if  he  would  accept,  when  Governor 
Koerner,  on  behalf  of  Mr.  TrumbiUl,  replied  that  the  latter 
would  not  accept  under  any  circumstances. 

An  Iowa  delegate  nominated  J.  D.  Cox,  the  man  who 
was  too  pure  to  stay  in  the  stink-hole  of  Washington. 


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Georgia  gave  Brown  22.  Illinois  offered  Cassius  M* 
Clay  21  votes ;  but  Mr.  Clay  declined  to  be  considered  a 
candidate,  and  urged  his  friends  to  vote  for  Mr.  Brown. 
Illinois  then  gave  Brown  42 ;  Indiana,  George  W.  Julian  28; 
Kansas,  Brown  8.  Kentucky  voted  for  Mr.  Clay,  but  the 
latter,  as  Chairman,  insisted  on  casting  23  votes  for  Brown. 
The  other  States  voted  as  follows  : 


New  York. 

Brown 33 

Trumbull 31 

Julian 2 

Walker l 

Clay 1 

North  Carolina. 

Trumbull 8 

Walker 12 

Ohio. 

Brown 2 

Trumbull 40 

Julian 3 

Oregon. 

Brown 6 

Pennsylvania. 

Cox 1 

Julian .3 

Brown 22 

Walker 37 

South  Carolina. 

Walker 14 

Tennessee. 

Brown 2 

TrmnbuU 20 

Texas. 

Trumbull , 16 

Vermont. 

Trumbull.. 4 

Brown 3 

Julian 1 

Virginia. 

Walker 22 

West  Virginia. 

Trumbull 10 

Wisconsin. 

Clay 20 

Mr.  Burnet  of  Ohio  announced  that  Mr.  Cox's  name 
was  not  before  this  Convention.  The  result  of  the  first 
ballot  was  as  follows  : 


Louisiana. 

Brown 14 

Maine. 

Julian 14 

Maryland. 

Trumbull ....15 

Brown 1 

Massachusetts. 

Julian  22 

Trumbull 2 

Michigan. 

Gov.  Walker  of  Va. '. . .  3 

Julian 3 

Brown 7 

Cox  of  Ohio 7 

Walker. 2 

Julian.    1 

Trumbull 1 

Senator  Tipton 2 

)i. 
Brown 16 

Missouri. 

Brown 28 

Nebraska. 

Tipton 6 

Nevada. 

Brown 6 

New  Hampshire. 

Brown 8 

New  Jersey. 

Brown 3 

Julian 1 

Cox 2 

Trumbull 1 

Scovel 12 


Walker 34^ 

Tipton 8 

Cox 25 

Clay 34 

Scovel 12 


Whole  vote 702 

Necessary  to  a  choice 352 

Brown 237 

Trumbull 158 

Julian 134^ 

Mr.  Hickman  (Penn.)  moved  that  Mr.  Brown  be  nomi- 
nated by  acclamation.  Cries  of  *'No,  no,"  and  the  motion 
was  withdrawn. 

Gov.  Koerner  (111.)  renewed  the  statement  that  he  was 


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instructed  to  say  on  behalf  of  Mr.  Trumbull  that  the  latter 
would  not  iccept  the  nomination.  As  doubts  have  been 
expressed,  we  have  telegraphed  him,  and  here  is  his  reply, 
positively  declining. 


SECOND  AND  LAST  BALLOT. 


The  roll  was  then  called  the  second  time,  with  the  fol- 


lowing result 

Alabama. 

Brown 18 

Arkansas. 

Brown 12 

California. 

Brown 13 

Connecticut. 

Julian 10 

Brown 1 

Florida. 

Brown 6 

Georgia. 

Brown ...22 

Illinois. 

Julian 21 

Brown 21 

Indiana. 

Julian 28 

Iowa. 

Julian 13 

Palmer. 1 

Brown 8 

Kansas. 

Julian 1 

Brown 9 

Kentucky. 

Brown 23 

Louisiana. 

Brown 14 

Maine. 

Julian 14 

Maryland. 

Brown 15 

Walker 1 

Massachusetts. 

Walker 4 

Julian 22 

Michigan. 

Brown 22 

Minnesota. 

Walker 9 

Brown 1 

Mississippi. 

Brown 16 

Missouri. 

Brown 28 


Nebraska. 

Brown 2 

Tipton a 

Julian 1 

Nevada. 

Brown 6 

New  Hampshire. 

Brown 8 

New  Jerse)^ 

Brown 17 

Julian 1 

New  York. 

Walker S 

Julian 8 

Palmer 1 

Brown 62 

North  Carolina. 

Brown 10 

Walker 10 

Ohio. 

Brown 14 

Julian 30 

Oregon. 

Brown 6 

Pennsylvania. 

Walker 33 

Brown 30 

Julian 10 

South  Carolina. 

Brown 12 

Julian 3 

Tennessee. 

Julian 1 

Palmer 6 

Brown 1^ 

Texas. 

Brown. 10 

Vermont. 

Brown t 

Julian 5 

Virginia. 

Walker V^ 

West  Virginia. 

Julian 10 

Wisconsin. 

Brown .15 

Julian * 


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The  vote  was  announced  as  follows  : 

Whole  number  of  votes 696  Walker 75 

Necessary  to  a  choice 349  Tipton 3 

Brown. 435  Palmer 8 

Julian 175 

B.  Gratz  Brown  was  declared  the  nominee.  A  motion 
was  made  to  make  the  vote  unanimous,  and  it  was  declared 
carried,  though  there  were  some  dissenting  votes. 

Gen.  Cochrane  moved  that  the  President  and  the  first 
Y ice-President,  and  the  four  principal  Secretaries  of  the 
Convention  be  a  Committee  to  announce  to  the  candidates 
their  nomination. 

Eesolutions  of  thanks  to  Cincinnati  for  her  hospitality 
and  to  the  officers  of  the  Convention  were  adopted. 

After  loud  cheers  for  the  successful  candidates, 
given  with  great  enthusiasm,  followed  by  cheers  for  Mr. 
Schurz,  for  Cincinnati,  and  the  Committee  of  Arrange- 
ments, which  were  given  with  equal  cordiality,  earnestness 
and  good  will,  in  response  to  vehement  calls  for  a  speech, 
Senator  Schurz  said : 

My  Fellow-Citizens  :  This  Convention  has  overwhelmed  me  with  kind- 
ness, and  I  have  especially  to  thank  them  for  the  indulgence  with  which  they 
have  borne  with  me,  while  I  was  endeavoring  to  the  best  of  my  ability  to 
conduct  with  fairness  and  impartiality  the  deliberations  of  this  large,  and  let 
us  confess,  a  little  unruly  body.  [Laughter.]  We  have  now  accomplished  our 
work.  Our  duty  it  will  be  now  to  proclaim  to  all  the  land  the  principles  we 
have  embodied  in  our  platform,  and  go  forward  and  solicit,  with  all  entrea- 
ties which  our  minds  and  hearts  are  capable  of  making,  the  support  of  the 
people  of  the  United  States  for  the  candidates  we  have  nominated.  I  have 
already  done  so  much  speaking  in  this  Convention,  and,  may  be,  I  may  have 
to  do  so  much  during  the  impending  campaign,  you  will  certainly  bear  with 
me  if  I  close  my  speech  in  the  same  manner  in  which  I  closed  my  first— then 
by  seconding  the  motion  to  adjourn,  and  now  by  declaring  the  Liberal  Re- 
publican Convention  adjourned  si7ie  die.     [Cheers  and  applause.] 

Calls  were  made  for  a  few  words  from  the  Hon.  George 
W.  Julian  of  Indiana,  who  said : 

If  my  physical  health  would  allow  me  to  talk  to  you  it  would  afford  me 
great  gratification.  I  am,  however,  and  have  been  for  some  time  past,  an  in- 
valid. I  have  retired  from  politics,  and  truly  would  not  have  been  here  at 
all  had  it  not  been  for  this  Liberal  Republican  movement,  which  I  could  not 
possibly  stay  away  from.  [Applause.]  I  am  in  it,  and  of  it,  and  shall  go  with 
it  to  the  end  if  I  can  gather  up  my  health,  which  I  think  will  be  greatly  invigor- 
ated by  what  we  have  done.  I  hope,  by-and-by,  to  be  able  to  help  your  cause. 
[Loud  applause,  and  calls  for  Palmer  and  Tilton,  neither  of  whom,  however, 
appeared.] 

A  delegate  said  he  thought  the  Convention  ought  not  to 
adjourn  without  tenderinij  their  thanks  to  the  proprietors 
of  Harper's  Weekly  for  having  done  so  much  in  giving  popu- 
larity to  their  cause  through  the  caricatures  of  Thomas 
Nast.     [Loud  laughter.] 

The  vast  concourse  had  by  this  time  greatly  diminished, 


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and  the  more  enthusiastic  portion,  who  had  till  now  lin> 
gered  about  the  platform,  gradually  withdrew,  and  thuij 
ended  an  inaugural  meeting  of  magnitude,  interest,  and 
import. 


•     ADDRESS  OF  THE  STATE  COMMITTEE 

TO    THE 

LIBERAL   REPUBLICANS    OF  NEW  YORK. 


Fellow  Citizens  :  The  present  Administration,  although 
failing  to  fulfil  the  just  expectations  of  the  American  peo- 
ple, is  nevertheless  attempting,  through  its  office  holders, 
to  prolong  its  power  for  the  next  four  years. 

A  large  portion  of  the  President's  original  supporters, 
and  the  entire  remainder  of  his  fellow-countrymen,  with- 
out distinction  of  party,  survey  this  attempt  with  indigna- 
tion and  alarm. 

The  history  of  the  Administration  is  a  shadowy  record 
of  discreditable  (sometimes  disgraceful)  acts — many  of 
them  blunders ;  others,  crimes.  Ever  since  the  day  after 
the  President's  inauguration,  when,  as  his  first  official  step, 
he  sought  to  abrogate  one  of  the  oldest  statutes  of  the  Ee- 
public  in  order  to  put  a  personal  friend  into  office,  he  has 
repeatedly  shown  himself  on  the  one  hand  ignorant  of  the 
laws,  and  on  the  other  defiant  of  them. 

He  has  transcended  the  limitations  of  the  Constitution, 
and  done  violence  to  its  free  spirit  by  usurping  for  himself 
functions  which  that  instrument  reserves  to  the  States  and 
their  citizens. 

He  has  tyrannously  invaded  the  political  assemblies  of 
our  own  and  other  free  commonwealths,  mischievously  in- 
truding his  Federal  influence  into  local  aftairs. 

He  has  alternately  proposed  and  defeated  Civil  Service 
Eeform,  until,  notwithstanding  his  professions  in  its  favor, 
he  has  proved  himself  the  chief  obstacle  to  its  success. 

He  has,  in  multitudes  of  cases,  made  tenure  of  office  to 
depend,  not  on  good  behavior  or  personal  fitness,  but  on 
mere  subserviency  to  his  partisan  schemes. 

He  has  put  crafty  and  ambitious  parasites  at  the  receipt 
of  customs,  where  they  still  continue  to  fatten  their  i)rivat© 
purses  on  the  public  funds. 

He  said  to  a  nation  weary  with  war,  "Let  us  have 
peace,"  but  has  kept  the  word  of  promise  to  the  ear  to 
break  it  to  the  hppe — fostering  in  the  North  toward  the 
South  a  temper  of  bitterness  and  resentment,  instead  of 
fraternity  and  good  will. 


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He  has  connived  at  and  sustained  a  number  of  alien 
and  rotten  governments  in  the  Southern  States,  some  of 
whose  officers  have  perpetrated  fraisids  equalled  in  magni- 
tude only  by  those  of  the  Tammany  Eing. 

He  has  habitually  stifled  investigation,  even  into  the 
gravest  charges  brought  against  his  own  official  household. 

He  has  committed  acts  of  nepotism  more  numerous 
than  are  recorded  against  the  entire  line  of  his  Presiden- 
tial predecessors  from  George  Washington  to  Andrew 
Johnson. 

He  has  accepted  gifts  from  flatterers,  for  which  he  has 
rendered  dishonorable  equivalents  by  bestowing  public 
elioluments  on  the  obsequious  givers. 

In  short,  he  has  administered  his  high  office,  not  as  a 
trust  devolved  upon  him  by  the  whole  people,  but  as  an 
estate  or  property  owned  by  himself  alone  in  fee  simple. 

During  all  this  ever-growing  maladministration,  the 
President's  partisans,  instead  of  rebuking  his  perverse 
course,  have,  on  the  contrary,  and  for  selfish  ends,  gilded 
it  with  uncandid  flattery  and  defended  it  with  specious 
logic.  They  have  put  forth  a  series  of  mocking  pretences 
to  the  eflect  that  he  is  paying  the  public  debt ;  that  he  has 
reduced  the  taxes ;  that  he  has  collected  the  revenue  ;  that 
he  has  settled  the  Alabama  claims ;  that  he  has  tranquil- 
ized  the  Indians  ;  and  that  he  has  reconstructed  the  South. 

But  not  one  of  these  allegations  is  true.  Challenge 
them  in  detail-  Is  he  paying  the  debt  ?  The  people,  not 
the  President,  are  paying  it.  Has  he  reduced  the  taxes  ? 
Congress,  not  the  Executive,  has  lightened  these  burdens  of 
the  people.  Has  he  collected  the  revenue  ?  Swarms  of  his 
officers  have  grown  rich  by  its  collection.  Has  he  settled 
the  Alabama  claims  ?  They  never  were  so  unsettled  as  at 
this  hour.  Has  he  made  peace  with  the  Indians  ?  The 
latest  intelligence  from  the  frontier  is  of  massacre  and 
blood,  provoked  by  frauds  which  his  officers'  have  perpe- 
trated on  the  deceived  and  exasperated  savages.  Has  he 
given  i)rosperity  and  contentment  to  the  South?  The 
Southern  people,  with  unexampled  unanimity,  are  demand- 
ing the  overthrow  of  an  Administration  which  has  held 
them  in  surveillance  and  treated  them  with  scorn. 

The  President's  office-holders  now  vainly  put  forth 
these  glittering  but  false  pretenses  of  the  success  of  an 
Administration  which  three-fourths  of  the  citizens  of  the 
United  States  are  impatient  to  vote  into  immediate  disso- 
lution. 

The  recent  Liberal  Republican  Convention  at  Cincin- 
nati— one  of  the  most  stately  and  brilliant  parliaments 
ever  assembled  in  this  country — uttered  the  fit  protest  of 
an  aroused  people  against  a  demoralized  Government— just 


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as  the  citizens  of  the  Empire  State,  a  year  befoi^e,  rose  in 
spontaneous  revolution  against  a  corrupt  inunicii)al  ring. 
The  prompt  and  brave  action  of  the  Convention  has  elec- 
trified the  country,  and  sent  a  tremor  through  the  self-com- 
placent security  of  the  *' powers  that  be."  The  Cincinn^-ti 
platform  is  as  morally  noble  as  the  great  Declaration  to 
which  our  forefathers  pledged  *' their  lives,  their  fortunes, 
and  their  sacred  honor."  Its  principles  include  the  equality 
of  all  men  before  the  law ;  the  perpetual  union  .of  these 
States — which  nothing  now  threatens  save  corruption  at 
the  Federal  center  ;  the  non-revival  of  all  questions,  and  the 
amicable  acceptance  of  all  results,  which  have  been  finally 
and  forever  settled  by  the  Thirteenth,  Fourteenth,  and 
Fifteenth  Amendments ;  Universal  amnesty,  which  is  the 
most  divine  act  possible  to  human  government ;  the  re- 
moval of  all  political  disabilities  occasioned  by  a  war  whose 
battle-fields  have  now  been  seven  years  green  with  peace ; 
the  ever  sacred  and  inviolate  supremacy  of  the  civil  over 
the  military  function  of  free  government ;  and  (last,  not 
least)  a  civil  service  which  shall  evermore  tend  to  i*eform 
itself  through  the  wholesome  regime  of  a  Presidency  ex- 
piring by  self-limitation  with  one  term. 

In  announcing  these  principles,  the  Cincinnati  Conven- 
tion gave  them  a  living  embodiment  in  the  person  of  a 
Presidential  candidate,  who  is  an  illustrious  citizen  of  our 
own  State ;  a  statesman  whose  honored  name  is  a  house- 
hold word  in  every  cottage  in  the  land :  whose  proverbial 
an^  absolute  and  incorruptible  integrity  is  the  best  possible 
guarantee  for  an  honest  government  in  future ;  whose 
prudent  and  economical  views  of  public  administration  are 
the  earnest  and  good  hope  of  a  safe  and  thrifty  manage- 
ment of  the  Executive  oflSce  ;  whose  kindliness  of  spirit  is 
typical  of  the  good  will  which  should  hereafter  exist  be- 
tween the  two  sections  heretofore  opposed ;  and  whose  long 
life,  spent  in  rare  devotion  to  the  interest  of  the  poor,  the 
oppressed,  and  the  toil-worn  among  his  countrymen,  has 
enshrined  him  in  all  men's  respect  as  one  of  the  most  faith- 
ful champions  of  human  rights,  and  one  of  the  most  revered 
examples  of  personal  worth. 

In  the  candidate  for  the  Vice-Presidency,  we  hail  a 
noble  and  gallant  statesman  of  the  West ;  a  Kentuckian  by 
birth,  a  Missourian  by  residence,  who  for  years  fought  tbe 
battle  of  freedom  on  slave  soil ;  who,  at  the  close  of  the 
war  against  Slavery,  was  one  of  the  heartiest  to  demand 
amnesty  for  the  Southern  people ;  and  whose  career  de- 
serves the  sympathy  of  all  who  honor  courage  in  action, 
dictated  by  nobility  of  soiil. 

In  view  of  this  platform  and  those  nominations,  we 
hereby  invite  you,  fellow-citizens,  of  all  party  names,  to 
join  the  Keforni  Movement  at  onc^,  and  to  organize  yoiir- 


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selves  without  regard  to  past  political  differences,  and 
without  further  delay,  into  working  associations  in  your 
own  respective  counties,  cities,  towns,  wards,  and  districts. 
Make  judicious  haste  to  form  a  willing  and  working  Execu- 
tive Committee,  whether  Democratic  or  Eepublican,  in  each 
of  these  localities,  and  send  the  names  of  its  Chairman  and 
Secretary  to  the  State  Committee's  head-quarters  in  New 
York.  All  who  work  with  us  are  of  us.  We  make  common 
cause  with  all  who  enlist  for  our  common  country. 

The  watchword  of  the  present  hour  is.  Organize  !  It  is 
thus  that  great  campaigns  are  fought.  Organize !  It  is 
thus  that  every  worker,  however  humble,  can  find  a  useful 
place  in  the  ranks.  Organize !  It  is  thus  that  the  whole 
State  may  be  systematically  canvassed,  and  every  voter 
reached  with  argument  and  appeal.  Organize  !  It  is  thus, 
and  thus  only,  that  the  victory  which  awaits  our  best  efforts 
can  be  magnificently  achieved. 

The  signs  of  the  times  are  propitious.  The  air  is  filled 
with  foretokens  of  triumph.  The  noble  response  made  to 
the  Cincinnati  ticket  by  our  Democratic  brethren  in  Ten- 
nessee ;  the  signal  overthrow  of  the  Administration  party 
in  the  election  of  the  Senatorship  in  Connecticut ;  the 
sympathy  exhibited  at  the  Eochester  Convention  by  our 
former  antagonists  and  present  friends  ;  the  outburst  of 
popular  enthusiasm  in  the  South ;  the  magnificent  support 
rendered  by  the  independent  press  of  the  country  to  the 
Reform  movement — all  these  are  harbingers  of  a  popular 
uprising  for  the  overthrow  of  the  existing  and  unworthj' 
Administration.  Our  cause  is  itself  an  inspiration,  and 
engenders  the  courage  and  good  cheer  with  which  we  shall 
prosecute  it  to  success.  It  is  the  cause  of  honesty  against 
corruption  in  high  places ;  it  is  the  cause  of  generous 
statesmanship,  reaching  with  equal  beneficence  to  all  sec- 
tions of  our  great  country  ;  it  is  the  cause  of  civil  liberty, 
administered  in  scrupulous  conformity  with  written  law  ; 
it  is  the  cause  of  Republican  government  re-established  on 
its  one  and  only  living  foundation— which  is,  the  loyal 
affection  of  a  free  people. 

JOHN  COCHRANE, 
Chairman  N.  Y.  Liberal  Republican  State  Com. 
Alfred  Wilkinson,  Secretary. 


STATE  COMMITTEE. 

Judicial  District. 

T.  .John  Cochrane,  No.  39  Nassau  street.  New  York. 
B.  A.  Willis,  No.  51  Chambers  street.  New  York. 
II.  J.  W.  Cob,  Nos.  129  and  131  South  8th  street,  Wil 
liamsburgh,  N.  Y. 
Grinnell  Hurt,  Warwick. 


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III.. J.  W.  Hasbrouck,  Eondout. 

TV    ^'  x'  ^''^^'''^'  ^^-  ^^^  Madison  street,  Albany. 
lY.  .E.  A.  Merritt,  Potsdam.  ^ 

D.  E.  Parks,  Sandy  Hill. 

V.  .Alfred  Wilkinson,  Syracuse. 

G.  W.  Flower,  Watertown. 
VI.  .J.  E.  Allaben,  Delhi. 
W.  P.  Eaymond,  Owe^o. 
VII.. D.  D.  S.  Brown,  Eochester. 

E.  E.  Eeynolds,  Albion. 

VIII.  .John  Walls,  No.  45  Tiipper  street,  Buffalo. 

Henry  0.  Lake,  Fredonia. 

JOHN  COOHEANE, 

A  ^xr  ^  Chairman. 

Alfred  Wilkinson,  Secretary. 

EXECUTIVE   committee. 

Gen.  John  Cochrane,  M.  L.  Filkins, 

Alfred  Wilkinson,        ^      J.  W.  Hasbrouck, 
Benj.  a.  Willis,  E.  A.  Merritt, 

John  W.  Cob. 

JOHN  COCHEANE, 

Chairman. 
Alfred  Wilkinson,  Secretary. 

Headquarters,  Eoom  14,  Astor  House,  New  York  City. 


OFFICIAL  NOTICE  TO  MR.  GREELEY, 

OK    TUB 

LIBERAL   REPUBLICAN   NOMINATION. 


Cincinnati,  Ohio,  May  8,  1872. 
Dear  Sir:  The  JS'ational  Convention  of  the  Liberal 
Eepublicans  of  the  United  States  have  instructed  the 
undersigned.  President,  Vice-President,  and  Secretaries  of 
the  Convention,  to  inform  you  that  you  have  been  nomi- 
nated as  the  candidate!,  of  the  Liberal  Eepublicans  for  the 
Presidency  of  the  United  States.  We  also  submit  to  you 
the  Address  and  Eesolutions  unanimously  adopted  by  the 
Convention. 


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Be  pleaded  to  signify  to  us  your  acceptance  of  the 
platform  and  the  nomination,  and  believe  us,  very  truly 
yours, 

C.  SGHUEZ,  President, 
GEO.  W,  JULIAN,  Vice-President 
Wm.  E.  McLean,       . 

John  G.  Davidson,  {secretaries 
J.  H.  Erodes,  f  secretaries. 

F.  W.  Wright,  ^ 

Hon.  Horace  Greeley,  New  York  City. 


MR. 

New  York,  May  20,  1872. 
Gentlemen :  I  have  chosen  not    to   acknowledge  your 
letter  of  the  3d  inst.  until  I  could  learn  how  the  work  of 
your  Convention  was  received  in  all  parts  of  our  great 
country,  and  judge  whether  that  work  was  approved  and 
ratified  by  the  mass  of  our  fellow-citizens.    Their  response 
has  from  day  to  day  reached  me  through  telegrams,  letters, 
and  the  comments  of  journalists  independent  of  official 
patronage,  and  indifferent  to  the  smiles  or  frowns  of  power. 
The  number  and  character  of  these  unconstrained,  unpur- 
chased, unsolicited  utterances  satisfy  me  that  the  move- 
ment which  found  expression  at  Gincinnati  has  received 
stamp  of  public  approval,  and  been  hailed  by  a  majority  of 
our  countrymen  as  the  harbinger  of  a  better  day  for  the 
Eepublic. 

I  do  not  misinterpret  this  approval  as  especially  com- 
plimentary to  myself,  nor  even  to  the  chivalrous-  and  justly 
esteemed  gentleman  with  whose  name  I  thank  your  Gon- 
vention  for  associating  mine.  I  receive  and  welcome  it  as 
a  spontaneous  and  deserved  tribute  to  that  admirable  Plat- 
form of  principles,  wherein  your  Gonvention  so  tersely,  so 
lucidly,  so  forcibly,  set  forth  the  convictions  which  im- 
pelled, and  the  purposes  which  guided  its  course—a  Plat- 
form which,  casting  behind  it  the  wreck  and  rubbish  of 
worn-out  contentions  and  by-gone  feuds,  embodies  in  fit 
and  few  words  the  needs  and  aspirations  of  To-Day. 
Though  thousands  stand  ready  to  condemn  your  every  act, 
hardly  a  syllable  of  criticism  or  cavil  has  been  aimed  at 
your  Platform,  of  which  the  substance  may  be  fairly  epi- 
tomized as  follows  : 

I.  All  the  political  rights  and  franchises  which  have 
been  acquired  through  our  late  bloody  convulsion  must 
and  shall  be  guaranteed,  maintained,  enjoyed,  respected, 
evermore. 

II.  All  the  political  rights  and  franchises  which  have 


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been  lost  throngh  that  convulsion  should  and  must  be 
promptly  restored  and  reestablished,  so  that  there  shall  be 
henceforth  no  proscribed  class  and  no  disfranchised  caste 
within  the  limits  of  our  Union,  whose  long  estranged 
people  shall  reunite  and  fraternize  upon  the  broad  basis  of 
Universal  Amnesty  mth  Impartial  Sulfrage. 

III.  That,  subject  to  our  solemn  constitutional  obliga- 
tion to  maintain  the  equal  rights  of  all  citizens,  our  policy 
should  aim  at  local  self-government,  and  not  at  centraliza- 
tion ;  that  the  civil  authority  should  be  supreme  over  the 
military  ;  that  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus  should  be  jealous- 
ly upheld  as  the  safeguard  of  ijersonal  freedom ;  that  the 
individual  citizen  should  enjoy  the  largest  liberty  consist- 
ent with  public  order ;  and  that  there  shall  be  no  Federal 
subversion  of  the  internal  polity  of  the  several  States 
and  municipalities,  but  that  each  shall  be  left  free  to  en- 
force the  rights  and  promote  the  well-being  of  its  inhab- 
itants by  such  means  as  the  judgment  of  its  own  people 
shall  prescribe. 

IV.  There  shall  be  a  real  and  not  merely  a  sininiated 
Eeform  in  the  Civil  Service  of  the  Eepublic  ;  to  which  end 
it  is  indispensable  that  the  chief  dispenser  of  its  vast  official 
patronage  shall  be  shielded  from  the  main  temptation  to 
use  his  power  selfishly  by  a  rule  inexorably  forbidding  and 
precluding  his  re-election. 

V.  That  the  raising  of  Eevenue,  whether  by  Tariff  or 
otherwise,  shall  be  recognized  and  treated  as  the  People's 
immediate  business,  to  be  shaped  and  directed  by  them 
through  their  Eepresentatives  in  Congress,  whose  action 
thereon  the  President  must  neither  overrule  by  his  veto, 
attempt  to  dictate,  nor  presume  to  punish,  by  bestowing 
office  only  on  those  who  agree  with  him,  or  withdrawing  it 
from  those  who  do  not. 

yi.  That  the  Public  Lands  must  be  sacredly  reserved 
for  occupation  and  acquisition  by  cultivators,  and  not 
recklessly  squandered  on  the  projectors  of  Eailroads  for 
which  our  people  have  no  present  need,  and  the  premature 
construction  of  which  is  annually  plunging  us  into  deeper 
and  deeper  abysses  of  foreign  indebtedness. 

YII.  That  the  achievement  of  these  grand  purposes  ot 
universal  beneficence  is  expected  and  sought  at  the  hands 
of  all  who  approve  them,  irrespective  of  past  affiliations. 

YIII.  That  the  public  faith  must  at  all  hazards  be  main- 
tained, and  the  National  credit  preserved. 

IX.  That  the  patriotic  devotedness  and  inestimable 
services  of  our  fellow-citizens  who,  as  soldiers  or  sailors, 
upheld  the  flag  and  maintained  the  unity  of  the  Eepublic 
shall  ever  be  gratefully  remembered  and  honorably  re- 
quited. 


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These  propositions,  so  ably  and  forcibly  presented  in  the 
Platform  of  your  Convention,  have  already  lixed  the  atten- 
tion and  commanded  the  assent  of  a  large  majority  of  our 
countrymen,  who  joyfully  adopt  them,  as  I  do,  as  the  bases 
of  a  true,  beneficent  National  Keconstruction — of  a  New 
Departure  from  jealousies,  strifes,  and  hates,  which  have 
no  longer  adequate  motive  or  even  plausible  pretext,  into 
an  atmosphere  of  Peace,  Fraternity,  and  Mutual  Good 
Will.  In  vain  do  the  drill-sergeants  of  decaying  organiza- 
tions flourish  menacingly  their  truncheons  and  angrily 
insist  that  the  files  shall  be  closed  and  straightened ;  in 
vain  do  the  whippers-in  of  parties  once  vital,  because  rooted 
in  the  vital  needs  of  the  hour,  protest  against  straying  and 
bolting,  denounce  men  nowise  their  inferiors  as  traitors 
and  renegades,  and  threaten  them  with  infamy  and  ruin. 
I  am  confident  that  th«^  American  People  have  already 
made  your  cause  their  own,  fully  resolved  that  their  brave 
hearts  and  strong  arms  shall  bear  it  on  to  triumph.  In  this 
faith,  and  with  the  distinct  imderstanding  that,  if  elected, 
I  shall  be  the  President,  not  of  a  party,  but  of  the  whole 
People,  I  accept  your  nomination,  in  the  confident  trust 
that  the  masses  of  our  countrymen.  North  and  South,  are 
eager  to  clasp  hands  across  the  bloody  chasm  which  has 
too  long  divided  them,  forgetting  that  they  have  been  ene- 
mies in  the  joyful  consciousness  that  they  are  and  must 
henceforth  remain  brethren. 

Yours,  gratefully, 

HORACE  GREELEY. 

To  Hon.  Carl  Schurz,  President ; 

Hon.  George  W.  Julian,  Vice-President ;  and 
Messrs.  William  E.  McLean,  Jojen  G.  Davidson, 
J.  H.  Rhodes,  F.  W.  Wright,  Secretaries  of 
the  National  Convention  of  the  Liberal  Republi- 
cans of  the  United  States. 


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